Middle East
The Middle East & Africa Bank (MEAB) has evaded sanctions despite evidence it’s a major financing arm of Hezbollah.
The move by the the Nujaba Movement comes after Israel’s debilitating blows against Iran’s proxies.
Donald Trump has promised to reinstitute “maximum pressure” on the Islamic Republic.
The move reflects strained Israel-Ankara relations.
The Jan. 9 vote is aimed at ending a two-year power vacuum in the Land of the Cedars.
While ending the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza is necessary to “start the peace,” Palestinian society must also be “transformed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham tells reporters in Jerusalem.
The suspects, Olimpi Toirovich, 28, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, also 28, and Azizbek Kamlovich, 33, could face the death penalty.
“What the Zionist regime did in Gaza and Lebanon is not victory,” the Iranian leader told a gathering of loyalist militia forces in Tehran.
While Hamas may view a move to Turkey as a soft landing in a safe harbor, for Ankara, accepting Hamas would be a risky and multifaceted move in a complex geopolitical game.
“The murder of Zvi Kogan, of blessed memory, is a heinous act of antisemitic terrorism. The State of Israel will utilize all available means to bring the perpetrators to justice,” said the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry.
Israeli security officials reportedly said that Chabad emissary Zvi Kogan was followed in his kosher supermarket in Abu Dhabi.
For over a year, Imad al-Adwan used his parliamentary credentials to bring in arms, gold, cigarettes and even birds across the Allenby Crossing.
