The Jerusalem Post reports that Iran and Syria have been using the massive airlift of relief supplies for the Iranian earthquake to hide weapons shipments to Hizb’Allah. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

Taking advantage of the massive airlift of humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in Iran, Syria has reportedly allowed Teheran to resume their supplies of weapons to Hizbullah through Damascus.

According to Channel 1, cargo planes filled with weapons began landing in the Syrian capital last week brimming with weapons for the Iranian-backed Hizbullah organization. It was the first time since the Syrians halted the weapons flow under American pressure prior to the invasion of Iraq a year ago.

Sources in the Defense Ministry confirmed the reports, calling it a “cynical manipulation of humanitarian aid”. They said that there has always been a trickling of weapons and propaganda to the Hizbullah but that the weapons transferred recently were larger quantities than in the past.

Until then the Iranians had delivered weapons to Hizbullah through weekly flights into Damascus.

Following the deadly earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam and the subsequent worldwide airlift, the Syrians reportedly dispatched a number of cargo planes to Iran under the guise of humanitarian aid.