HEZBOLLAH

Lebanon-based Hezbollah is a transnational Shiite Islamist group founded by Iran and following the ideology of absolute Wilayat al-Faqih... Hezbollah makes no secret of receiving financial support from Iran. In a mid-2016 speech, Nasrallah boasted that his group's "budget, salaries, expenses, and its good, drink and weapons and missiles [are funded by] the Islamic Republic of Iran. As long as there is money in Iran, then we'll have money." It is difficult to know how much Iran provides Hezbollah annually, with estimates ranging from $100 to $200 million per year in cash outlays alone according to U.S. intelligence estimates, to $800 million annually according to IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott.