In response to the Bush administration’s accusations that Iran and Syria had supplied Hezbollah with weapons:

“We don’t need to arm ourselves from Tehran. Why bring weapons from Iran via Syria when we can procure them anywhere in the world?”Josh Meyer, “The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook,” Politico, 2017, https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/.