Iran's Hezbollah: the most heavily armed terrorist gang on Earth

"Hezbollonians"

Hezbollah [aka "Party of God"] begun in 1982, has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 2001, pursuant to Executive Order 13224. The US Treasury Department designated them as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity," and they're considered as the most technically capable terrorist group and a continued security threat to the United States by the State Department. So it's crazy that there are American citizens who support Hezbollah's and Hamas' efforts "from the river to the sea" bull crap against our only true Middle East ally, Israel.

Hezbollah is so strong militarily that it's believed they're stronger than the Lebanese Army and equivalent to a medium-size army and are considered to be the most powerful non-state actor in the world. 

Estimates of their strength vary but Jane's assessed their strength to be over 25,000 full-time terrorists, and about 20,000-30,000 scumcrumpets in the reserve. They are financed by Iran, with a budget of $700 million, and trained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran.

Hezbollah's charter emphasizes resistance against Israel and Zionism and their commitment to defending Lebanon. It also promotes Wilayat al-Faqih, the doctrine giving religious leaders the authority to rule in the absence of the Mahdi, or Islam's version of the messiah. But don't let the religious leader power fool you--Hezbollah supports the armed struggle and military resistance to achieve its goals, and religious leaders should be considered military combatants.

It's is estimated that Hezbollah has a total of 40,000 to 150,000 rockets, a lot more than most countries, and perhaps as many as 2,000 drones. The also possess anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles and anti-tnak missiles. They also maintain T-55 and T-72 tanks in Syria and has huge weapons caches, bunkers, and tunnels in southern Lebanon.

So it's obvious that Hezbollah poses the greatest threat to Israel and potentially a threat to the West, in spite of not having manned aircraft, tanks or armored vehicles in Lebanon.

Their main weakness are small arms marksmanship, maneuver warfare and air defenses. Their light infantry and anti-tank squads are capable, as a whole they are quantitatively and qualitatively weaker than the IDF.

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