US Mission to the UN; Iran spends $200 million on Hezbollah each year



US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley

US Ambassador to the United Nations , Nikki Haley said in a tweet published on the USUN twitter account that the Iranian regime spends at least $200 million on Hezbollah each year, while their citizens chant, “Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, my life only for Iran.”

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