UANI Statement on Estonia’s Action Against Hezbollah

(New York, N.Y.) – United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Chairman Senator Joseph Lieberman and CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following joint statement today after Estonia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the Government had imposed sanctions against Hezbollah in its entirety.

“European nations are steadily coming to the realization that their concocted fiction of separate political and terrorist wings within Hezbollah – a distinction that even Hezbollah admits does not exist – is a wrongheaded approach. UANI commends Estonia and the Government of Prime Minister Jüri Ratas for taking decisive action today against Hezbollah in its entirety by imposing an entry ban against anyone associated with the terror group.

“With these sanctions, Estonia joins the United Kingdom, Germany, Serbia, Kosovo, Lithuania, and the Netherlands as leaders committed to thwarting Hezbollah’s terrorist operations in Europe and recognizing the threat Iran and its proxies pose to the international community.

“Other European nations, particularly France, are long overdue in sanctioning or banning Hezbollah in its entirety. It is time for Paris to join the growing global consensus that Hezbollah is wholly undeserving of any legitimacy whatsoever.”

UANI’s website, Eye on Hezbollah, chronicles Hezbollah’s evolution from a small radical militia in 1982 to a virtual state within a state in 2020. 

To read UANI’s resource, Iran’s Malign Intelligence Activities, please click here. 

To read UANI’s blog, To Counter Iran, Europe Must Pressure Hezbollah, please click here. 

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