The Hungary situation - rather interesting as J.D. Vance is supporting Orban's campaign

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Revelations about a 2024 call offering aid raise questions about Hungary’s ties to Iran as the Trump administration is supporting Prime Minister Viktor Orban for reelection.

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Soon after the deadly Israeli attack that caused thousands of Hezbollah pagers to explode in September 2024, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government offered its assistance to Iran, the key sponsor of Hezbollah, considered a terrorist organization by the United States.

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“Our secret service has already contacted your services and we will share all the information we have gathered during the investigation,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, by telephone, according to a copy of a Hungarian government transcript of the Sept. 30 call obtained and authenticated by a Western intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post. “Every possible document will be shared with your services.”

Hungary was in the spotlight at the time because the Taiwanese company whose brand was on the devices had told reporters they were manufactured by a Hungarian company under a licensing agreement. Szijjarto was keen to stress to Araghchi that his country had not been involved in any way in the Sept. 17 attack in Lebanon that killed 12 people and wounded as many as 2,800 and that the pagers had not been made in Hungary.

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