Iranian Tentacles of Terrorism

"No one can yet say whether this case is connected with a possible planned terrorist act or not."
Cypriot Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou

"This is a case which pertains to the security of the state and public disclosure could possibly adversely affect those interests."
Cypriot public prosecutor

"We are aware of media reports of an individual arrested in possession of a Canadian passport."
"Consular officials are in touch with local authorities. To protect the privacy of individuals concerned, further details on this case cannot be released."
Amy Mills, spokesperson, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa

Lebanese supporters of Shi'ite Hezbollah movement gather in the southern town of Nabatiyeh on May 24, 2015, to watch a televised address by Hassan Nasrallah. Photo by AFP

The terrorist group that has made Lebanon its home base, with elected officials in the Lebanese parliament, a Lebanese Shiite movement that was designed and formed with the considerable assistance and inspiration of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, has succeeded in infiltrating Canada, just as Hamas ruling Gaza, has found a place in Canada among their supporters who have immigrated to Canada, holding Canadian passports.

Fundraising among supportive Canadians helps fuel their terrorist activities, as does their involvement in organized crime, in smuggling operations of weapons, drugs and illegal cigarettes. Just as the Taliban profits from poppy-growing in Afghanistan to fund their violent Islamist agendas, so too do these Islamist terrorist groups, whether Sunni or Shiite, turn to criminal activities for their operating costs.

A Lebanese man holding a Canadian passport has most recently been detained on the Island of Cyprus. The suspect only recently arrived on Cyprus, renting a house in whose basement was discovered ammonium nitrate fertilizer, famously used for explosives. Two tonnes of ammonium nitrate which were stored in 67,000 packages packed into 420 boxes were discovered along with 10,000 euros in cash.

Cypriot police cordon off the house of a Lebanese man holding a Canadian passport in the Cypriot coastal city of Larnaca where more than 400 boxes of ammonium nitrate -- a fertiliser that when mixed with other substances can be used to make explosives -- was discovered   (IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP/Getty Images)

The island is a well-known and popular destination for Israeli tourists. Israel maintains an embassy in Nicosia. Cypriot intelligence authorities conveyed to Israel's defence establishment that it is their belief Cyprus was meant to become a "point of export" for attacks to take place in Europe targeting Israeli and Jewish sites, including synagogues. According to a source within the IDF, Hezbollah may be the contractor behind the terrorist plan but "it is Iran ... behind the funding and training.

"This is a terror infrastructure ready to strike the moment it is given a chance, like the one in Burgas", they said, referencing a 2012 terror attack attributed to Hezbollah that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver at the Black Sea city of Burgas. "This is additional proof of Iran's involvement in terror and the infrastructure of operatives, instructors and funders it provides".

Two years earlier a Cyprus court tried and convicted a dual Swedish Lebanese citizen for being part of a plot to attack Israeli tourists in Cyprus. Hossam Taleb Yaacoub had himself testified to being a paid member of Hezbollah. And it was a Lebanese-Canadian, Hassan El-Hajj Hassan who was identified as a key suspect in the 2012 Hezbollah-linked bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists.

He is believed to be in Lebanon. He was added to the U.S. State Department's list of 'Specially Designated Global Terrorists'. The Islamic Republic of Iran has its signature behind all of Hezbollah's terrorist activities aimed at killing Israelis or Jews. Iran uses its proxy terrorist militia as a support for Syria's Baathist government of mass murdering President al-Assad. Iraq is being defended against the equally atrocious attacks by Sunni Islamists like al-Nusra and Islamic State by Shiite militias loyal to Iran.

The factions are busy attacking one another and on the sidelines innocent civilians desperate to escape the bloodbaths each bring to the Middle East. But all the action that takes place in that misbegotten part of the world and in south Asia in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Burma and Bangladesh, just doesn't suffice to satisfy the martyrdom-complex blood-lust of Hezbollah, reaching out to Europe and the West for other victims as well.

At the behest and obey instructions from Iran. The very country that insists its goal in succeeding with its nuclear experimentation and production is solely for peaceful purposes.