According to Lebanese film maker #FirasHatoum, the #BeirutBlast may well have been a by-product of #Syria's #Assad regime trying to get hold of nitrate to use in weapons and bypassing sanctions.

Officially those 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate that blew up and destroyed large portions of #Beirut was intended for Mozambique, but that likely was misleading.

So unsurprisingly #Assad is murderous beyond the borders of Syria. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/businessmen-with-ties-to-assad-linked-to-beirut-port-blast-cargo