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https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/3195
Hizbullah has significantly expanded and institutionalized its drug
trafficking enterprises to the point where the group may soon raise more
money through cross-border illicit narcotics activities than all its other funding streams combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_economy_in_Lebanon
Since the 1990s, drug smuggling has emerged as a primary source of income for the Assad
regime in Syria and its ally Hezbollah.

https://www.voanews.com/a/exclusive-hezbollah-facing-cash-crunch-seeks-to-boost-illegal-drug-sales-in-europe-/7832984.html
Exclusive: Facing cash crunch, Hezbollah seeks to boost illegal drug sales in Europe

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/07/02/how-hezbollah-fundraises-through-crime/ While Iran provides most of its financing, crime is a core component of Hezbollah's
fundraising - in fact, the group's avowed religious pieties notwithstanding, there
is almost no crime from which its overseas networks will refrain in their pursuit
of money: Drug trafficking, gun running, blood diamonds, illicit timber, even human
trafficking.

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