How Ireland became haven for Hezbollah’s cocaine

The Spectator: Hezbollah’s involvement in the transnational drugs trade to fund its war against Israel is well documented, with the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam its main conduit into Europe. But evidence from an Irish court last month revealing ‘a major Iranian nexus’ in a cocaine ship off Ireland’s coast indicates that Hezbollah now sees Ireland’s under patrolled coastline as a ‘point of least resistance’ into the lucrative European market.

One security expert is reported as saying Ireland was being targeted for ‘tonnage loads by Iranian Hezbollah.’…