Funding of Hezbollah an Iranian newspaper that Iran transferred the missiles to the Shi'ite militia, adding that Hezbollah has his country's blessing to use the weapons in defense of Lebanon". The Israel Defense Forces regard Hezbollah as virtually an arm of the Iranian armed forces; a senior Israeli defence official told "Jane's Defence Weekly" that "we should consider that what we are facing in Lebanon is not a militia but rather a special forces brigade of the Iranian Army." In an interview in 2007, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Kassem told the Iranian Arabic-language TV station al-Qawthar that all terrorist attacks and suicide bombings
Hezbollah foreign relations bombing and the organizations involvement in Syrian civil war supporting the Ba'ath government. Two EU countries have imposed partial or complete prohibitions on Hezbollah. The Netherlands has proscribed the organisation fully, while the United Kingdom has proscribed Hezbollah's paramilitary External Security Organization, but not the organisation's political wing. Switzerland, owing to its Swiss neutrality, does not regard Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Its government only uses the Sanctions List provided by the United Nations. Dan Gillerman, the Israeli representative at UN, referred to Hezbollah as a "cancerous growth" that must be removed. The Israeli Government considers the use of military