U.S. Politics
A proclamation accuses Iran of sponsoring terrorism, arbitrarily detaining American citizens and threatening its neighbors.
“It is my job to provide military options to the president should he decide to respond with military force,” Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters.
The president of the City Council in Trenton, N.J., Kathy McBride, allegedly said during a Sept. 5 closed-door meeting that a Jewish city lawyer was able to reach a settlement at a reduced rate in a personal-injury lawsuit by being “able to wait her out and Jew her down.”
“He is intimately familiar with most of the hot-button issues—Iran, North Korea, the ‘War on Terror’—that are on the front burner in Washington at the moment,” said Ilan Berman, senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, of Robert O’Brien.
He takes over amid threats against the United States from Iran, Russia, North Korea and China, as the United States also grapples with global Islamic terrorism.
“It’s like putting a monument to killers on the top of the graves of their victims,” said director general of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky.
“There is a longstanding commitment and a directive from the Israeli government not to engage in any intelligence operations in the U.S.,” the Israeli prime minister’s office released in a statement.
Sami al-Uraydi, also known as Abu Mahmud al-Shami, is a Jordanian national and senior Sharia (Islamic law) official for Hurras al-Din, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda.
Israeli embassy spokesperson calls the allegations “absolute nonsense,” saying “Israel doesn’t conduct espionage operations in the United States, period.”
Given the major departures of pro-Israel figures like the now former national security advisor and the upcoming resignation of U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt, questions remain as to the direction of the Trump administration.
“I think very unfortunately we’ve now been put in the position of putting the Iranians in the position to decide how provocative they want to be and where they want to draw the lines. And they’re not surprisingly being provocative,” Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet.
The move is part of amending an executive order to strengthen and expand the U.S. State and Treasury departments’ authority to target terrorists and their supporters.
