Israeli military propagandists can summon all Western reporters in Israel and can dictate to them claims and statements and rumors, and they would dutifully print them the next day. Can you imagine if Arab military propagandists tried to do the same? ""Sanctions have hurt the amount of aid Hezbollah receives from Iran," he said, without providing evidence to back up his claims. He said aid remains a "significant amount," estimating it at hundreds of millions of dollars a year."