United Arab Emirates authorities said on Friday they had dismantled a “terrorist network” funded and operated by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran, and arrested its members.
According to the state news agency, the network was involved in “money laundering, financing terrorism and threatening national security.”
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or Iran.
“The network had been operating within the country under a fictitious commercial cover and sought to infiltrate the national economy and carry out external schemes threatening the country’s financial stability,” the UAE state news agency said.
-Reuters
