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“The few remaining buyers of Iranian crude oil should know that they are helping to fund Iran’s malign activity across the Middle East,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
It’s part of a group of deliveries of 820,000 barrels of gasoline and other fuels to the once oil-rich nation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails the “authentic friendship and steadfast support” that Jerusalem has received from Tegucigalpa.
The planned move was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but will get underway with the expected arrival of an Israeli ambassador, says Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales Banegas.
The sanctions come despite the historic U.S.-brokered agreement last week to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE.
“Here, I feel truly at home,” said Miriam Mercado. “In Mexico, we are always viewed as ‘those Jews’ and never felt safe to go out with a ‘kipah.’ We knew we would always be a minority.”
“The cooperation between us will make both of us stronger,” Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu tells Colombian President Ivan Duque.
State Department envoy Ellie Cohanim also noted that the United States is urging nations to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
The global coronavirus crisis has led to a 116 percent increase in aliyah applications from Latin America since 2019, with 140 Brazilian Jews having arrived in the country since March.
Esteban Lizondo apparently also remarked that the State of Israel’s creation was a surrender to the “Zionist lobby” in exchange for money.
The appointment marks the second time Luis Fux, 67, has made history in Brazil; in 2011, he became the first Jewish judge named to the bench of the Federal Supreme Court.
“The rogue regimes in Caracas and Tehran are unified by their penchant for corruption, self-enrichment and gross mismanagement of their peoples’ wealth,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
