Irish terrorists in Hezbollah weapons sting met with Iranian embassy officials

Contacts were forging the links between the New IRA, Iran and Hezbollah. Members of an Irish group arrested on terrorist charges after seeking arms from Hezbollah met with officials at Iran’s Dublin Embassy, security sources told The National. Former members of the Provisional IRA reactivated Hezbollah contacts to obtain finance and weapons for the New IRA (NIRA). The Irish terrorists have been seeking advanced bomb-making technology developed in Iran and Lebanon that would allow them to penetrate police armoured vehicles in Northern Ireland, intelligence sources said. Nine members of the NIRA, including two women, were arrested last moth after a long-running undercover…