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IDF pounds Gaza as ceasefire crumbles
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Arabia
Ansarullah emphases that maritime security is top priority
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The official Ansarullah front man, Mohammed Abdulsalam, emphasized Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s focus on maritime security and the safeguarding of its waters, with the Yemeni Naval Forces committed to protecting their territorial waters within their sovereign rights.

The remarks of Mohammed Abdulslam, who is also the head of the national negating delegation, came in response to the statement by the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven Industrialized Countries regarding maritime security.

The statement called for "an immediate cessation of threats against international shipping lanes and commercial vessels, as well as the release of the ship M/V Galaxy Leader and its crew."

"Yemen’s Naval Forces had previously cautioned that Israeli ships or those operating with the enemy were potential targets due to the relentless aggression and unjust blockade on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip," Abdulsalam stated

He highlighted that the actions of the Israeli entity pose a threat to both regional and international security. Countering these aggressive activities is pivotal for the stability and peace of the region and the world.

Abdulsalam clarified that the detained Israeli ship’s crew was treated in accordance with Islamic ethics and human customs, ensuring their ability to communicate with their families.

Regarding the detention of the Israeli ship, Abdulsalam explained that it was an act of solidarity with the people and resistance in Gaza. The ship’s fate is intertwined with the choices made by the Paleostinian resistance, serving their objectives against the enemy.

He emphasized that granting legitimacy to G7 Industrialized countries to defend the Zionist entity violates international law.

Abdulsalam underscored that the true legitimacy lies with the Paleostinian people in confronting the aggression and siege imposed by the Israeli entity, supported by the US and the West.

Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
More than 30 Palestinian refugees arrived in Kuban
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A family of eight Palestinian refugees who arrived in Kuban today are staying with relatives. In total, since the beginning of the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, 31 refugees from Palestine have arrived in the Krasnodar region, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
Golly. Such generosity to their distressed kin.
The Al-Najjar family of five adults and three children arrived in Krasnodar today. At the railway station, refugees from the Gaza Strip were met by employees of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Krasnodar Territory.

The agency reported that the mother of the family is from Krasnodar, where her relatives live, and her husband also has Russian citizenship. “In the future, the large Al-Najjar family plans to purchase their own housing. For now, the refugees are staying with Krasnodar relatives,” the department reported on its website. 

Since the beginning of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, 31 refugees from the Gaza Strip, including 13 children, have arrived in the Krasnodar region. “The families are located in Krasnodar, Sochi, Gelendzhik, in the settlements of the Dinsky and Timashevsky districts. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations provide all possible assistance to the internally displaced persons,” the message states.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that two republics of the North Caucasus reported on the organized reception of refugees. Thus, on November 29, more than 50 Palestinian residents arrived in Chechnya, including 27 children. Adult migrants will be offered employment, and children will be offered schooling, the republican authorities said.

Earlier, the Republic's Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that a working group had been created in Chechnya that was preparing to receive 250 refugees from Palestine; places had been prepared for them in the children's health camp "Gorny Klyuch" in the village of Avtury.

On November 21, the Dagestan authorities announced that they were ready to accept up to 200 refugees from Palestine. The republican authorities allocated 8.2 million rubles for their placement. On November 25, the first group  of refugees from Palestine, consisting of about 50 people, arrived in the republic.

By November 30, three groups of Palestinians arrived in Dagestan. IDPs from Palestine  will receive refugee status , the government of Dagestan announced. All refugees are housed at a recreation center near Makhachkala, government officials said. Residents of Palestine who arrived in Dagestan  asked to be provided with cellular communications and the Internet, as well as to draw up documents; some of them intend to obtain Russian citizenship.

Posted by: badanov || 12/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Maybe Israel should lobotomize its prisoners. Probably less trouble in the future
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/01/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||


Europe
Teenage suspects accused of IS-inspired plot to blow up truck at German Christmas market
More on this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] A 15-year-old boy and an alleged accomplice are accused of plotting to blow up a small truck at a Christmas market in western Germany in an attack modeled on the methods of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group, local prosecutors say.

The teenager was detained Tuesday in Burscheid, a town near Cologne
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
, and a court in Leverkusen yesterday ordered him kept in jug pending a possible indictment. Another teenager has been arrested in the eastern German state of Brandenburg.

Officials say the 15-year-old wrote in a chat group about attack plans. Prosecutors in Duesseldorf say he and the other suspect are accused of agreeing to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen, a city in the western Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state, at the beginning of December by using fuel to blow up a small truck.

The teenager claims he acquired gasoline for the plan, according to a statement from prosecutors. The two suspects allegedly planned to leave Germany together after the attack and join the Islamic State-Khorasan Province terror group, an IS offshoot active in and around Afghanistan.

Investigators are evaluating evidence found at the 15-year-old’s home but did not find any stocks of fuel, prosecutors say. He is being investigated on suspicion of conspiring to commit murder and preparing a serious act of violence.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2023 2023-12-01 00:58 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: WoT
NYC education officials defend school where student protest targeted pro-Israel teacher
Kids will be kids, donchaknow. Especially when they believe the anti-Israel propaganda on social media. But just because they go after a Jewish teacher does not make them vile Jew-haters!
[IsraelTimes] A November 20 demonstration at a Queens high school descended into mayhem with an educator sequestered for her own safety, raising concerns of dangerous levels of antisemitism

Students and city officials are pushing back against accusations of antisemitism at Hillcrest High School in Queens after a Jewish teacher was targeted in a protest, even as local Jewish leaders are demanding accountability after the incident. Video of the unruly protest, which took place November 20 and exploded into public view over the weekend, drew widespread criticism of the school and charges of antisemitism, including from New York City Mayor Eric Adams. But speaking at a press conference at the school on November 27, Schools Chancellor David Banks, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and student leaders rejected the charges, even as they denounced the incident and said some students would be suspended over it.

“So many of the students who were running or jumping had no idea what was even going on. They were doing what 14- and 15-year-olds do,” Banks said. “The notion that this place is radical, these kids are radicalized and antisemitic, is the height of irresponsibility.”
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2023 2023-12-01 03:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  But just because they go after a Jewish teacher does not make them vile Jew-haters!

Except, of course, for those that are.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2023 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like Mayor Adams just found more money in the education department for sanctuary housing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2023 7:40 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Surrender: Blinken Tells Israel It Lacks ‘Credit' to Defeat Hamas
[Breitbart] Let’s just watch and see whether he’s right how wrong he is.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2023 09:18 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Tony's very much afraid he'll end as a scapegoat to appease American-Muslim voters.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/01/2023 13:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember a time when pandering was considered a bad thing...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/01/2023 14:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Does he work for TransUnion.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/01/2023 19:55 Comments || Top||


Post-war Gaza options said to include expelling Hamas members; forming Saudi-, UAE-backed body
[IsraelTimes] Israel and the US are discussing the option of expelling thousands of lower-ranking members of Paleostinian terror group Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
after the current war ends in an attempt to root out Hamas from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, though there has been no talk of how this would be done in practice, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The idea is similar to the deportation of Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) members, including leader Yasser Arafat, from Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
to Tunisia.

An analyst cited in the report casts the possibility as "unrealistic" at this time, and an Israeli official acknowledges Hamas members would likely object to being expelled.
"Hokay. Object and receive martyrdom. Now, who objects?"
The report, citing unnamed senior Israeli and US officials, says another option, floated by the IDF, is to form a "Gaza Restoration Authority" backed by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the United Arab Emirates, tasked with rebuilding a Hamas-free Gaza.

"Huge" obstacles to this plan, the report says, are disagreements between Israel and the US about whether the Paleostinian Authority would be part of such a solution (Jerusalem has insisted Ramallah can’t be given a governing role in the Strip), and that Riyadh and Abu Dhabi would need to endorse the solution.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2023 2023-12-01 00:58 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  American fantasies, Israeli blood.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/01/2023 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Israel and the US are discussing the option of expelling exterminating thousands of lower-ranking members of Paleostinian terror group Hamas
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2023 7:38 Comments || Top||


Hamas hostage stories OR Yes, Virginia, Hamas really is that evil
There should be an image here, but I can’t find ine evil enough.
Uncle of freed hostages says Hamas branded them using motorcycle exhaust pipe

[IsraelTimes] The uncle of brothers Yagil and Or Yaakov says Palestinian terrorists branded the boys using the exhaust pipe of a motorcycle after they were abducted to Gaza on October 7.

Yagil, 12, and Or, 16, were returned to Israel earlier this week.

“They told us stories about what they went through inside Gaza. The stories are horrible,” Yaniv Yaakov says during an event in North Macedonia with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. “Each child that was taken by Hamas was taken on a motorbike and they took every child, took his leg and put it on the exhaust of that motorbike, so they have a burn so they will be marked if they run, if they escape, so [Hamas] can find them.”

“They were drugged, they were treated so bad, but at least they are with us,” Yaakov adds.

Gaza: Hamas Kept Women Hostages in Cages, Forced Children to Watch Videos of October 7 Massacre

[LegalInsurrection] Palestinian mobs jeer and threaten Israeli hostages as they leave terrorist-controlled Gaza.

Child Hostage of Hamas Reportedly Held in Attic by a UN Teacher



... didn’t provided him with any food or his medicine.

Another hostage was held captive by a Gazan DOCTOR who continued to provide care to children in the hospital, but not the Israeli kid.

Teachers, Doctors, UNWRA staff, they're all under Hamas' control. They were there at the massacre on October 7th, and took part in holding hundreds of hostages, including women and children, captive.

Source: Israeli channel 12
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2023 2023-12-01 00:23 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  ...and so are their apologists in the West.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  An obvious limitation in Hamas' psy-ops game. If they'd chosen carefully, they surely could have taken people who would say whatever they wanted them to say upon release.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/01/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Evil? That are unpossible. Everyone knows they are true humanitarians. Just look at how they...uh...and....

nevermind
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2023 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Most anything Bosch would be representative.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2023 13:46 Comments || Top||



30 Palestinians freed from Israeli prison arrive in Ramallah
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian inmates released from Israeli prison have arrived in Ramallah from Ofer Prison in the West Bank, Paleostinian media outlets report.

A bus carrying 30 former inmates is welcomed with fanfare in the city’s central square, the official Paleostinian Wafa news outlet reports.

A video shows one family’s tearful reunion.

The group is released as part of a deal that is supposed to see 10 Israeli hostages released daily for 30 Paleostinians, though only 8 Israelis were released Thursday.

An Al Jazeera report claims the bus was hit with tear gas, and some onboard required medical attention.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


8 Israeli hostages freed from Gaza at end of seventh day of truce
[IsraelTimes] Two women returned in late afternoon, while six others released to Israel shortly before midnight; unclear whether ceasefire will be extended further

Eight Israeli hostages were released from Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
captivity Thursday, the seventh group freed by the terror group under a temporary truce agreement with Israel. Two women, Mia Schem, 21, and Amit Soussana, 40, were freed in the late afternoon, while six others returned to Israel shortly before midnight. The delay in releasing the six once again led to a nerve-wracking wait for their families. Hamas had indicated earlier it could also free an additional two Russian-Israeli citizens, as it has done in previous days as a gesture to Moscow, but did not ultimately do so. Instead, it appeared to calculate, and Israel to accept, that two Russian-Israelis free on Wednesday would count toward the 10-hostage daily minimum agreed in the truce deal.

At the same time, it remained unclear whether the temporary truce with Hamas, coupled with the release of further hostages, would be extended to another day.

Hamas had also previously said it would return three bodies of Israelis on Thursday, but there was no indication that it had done so.

Thursday’s release of two teens meant that all but two of the hostage Israelis in the child category had been returned from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
: the two young boys of the Bibas family, four-year-old Ariel and 10-month-old Kfir. The pair were taken hostage with their mother Shiri, 32; father Yarden was also kidnapped, but separately.

In a statement Wednesday, Hamas claimed the three had been killed. Israel says it is investigating the claim. Hamas on Thursday released a propaganda video appearing to show Yarden alive and relating to the rest of his family. IDF front man Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari described the video as "psychological terror."

Thursday’s hostage releases came after a deal to extend the ongoing truce was reached early Thursday morning, just ahead of a 7 a.m. deadline for it to expire. The agreement was made after Israel reportedly rejected an early list of hostages sent by Hamas which it deemed unacceptable.

The same situation appeared to be repeating itself Thursday night, with the sides widely reported to be disagreeing over who would be released in a potential eighth group. Israel has insisted Hamas must free more women it is holding in the next release.

The military warned Thursday evening that it was prepared to resume Israel’s offensive at a moment’s notice. Hagari said: "We are prepared to attack at any hour, tonight as well."

Israel has insisted Hamas release all children and civilian women held hostage by the terror group within the framework of the current truce deal. Hamas-led holy warriors took about 240 hostages of all ages during the October 7 shock assault when it massacred some 1,200 people in southern Israel.

The temporary ceasefire agreement has so far seen 105 civilians released from Hamas captivity in Gaza: 81 Israelis, 23 Thai nationals and 1 Filipino.

Israel estimates that about 137 hostages are now being held in Gaza and insists the terror group release all remaining civilian women and kiddies hostages before additional agreements are considered.

Those released Thursday included:

Mia Schem, who was kidnapped on October 7 from the Supernova music festival near Re’im. Schem was the first Israeli seen in a Hamas propaganda video released nine days after she was taken hostage.

Schem could be seen in the video being treated after she was maimed in her arm, and later speaking to the camera. Her mother, Keren Schem, welcomed the sign of life and begged for her daughter to be freed: "I see that she’s very terrified, in a lot of pain, and I can see that she’s saying what they’re telling her to say." Her family said they believe she was shot in the shoulder before being taken hostage.

Schem’s aunt said Thursday that a Paleostinian veterinarian had operated on her arm while she was held hostage. "She underwent trauma. She’s thin, she’s weak," Vivian Hadar told news hounds. "She did physical therapy for herself."

"We’re happy she’s with us. It’s really tough to see her like this," Hadar added.

Also freed was Amit Soussana, 40, from Kfar Aza, a lawyer who was home sick with a fever when she was kidnapped.

She texted her family on October 7 that there were holy warriors "outside my window... it’s scary, it doesn’t seem real." Around 10 a.m. she told them she was going to hide in a closet and that her cellphone battery was about to run out — the last they heard from her.

The only minors freed on Thursday were siblings Aisha Ziyadne, 17, and Bilal Ziyadne, 18, members of a Bedouin family from Rahat who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Holit while Bilal was working in a cowshed there, less than a mile away from the Gaza Strip.

Their father Youssef, 53, and brother Hamza, 23, were taken captive alongside them and are still held hostage in Gaza. Youssef has 18 total children with his two wives and 20 grandchildren, and is the primary breadwinner. Bilal and Aisha are the first Arab Israelis to be released since October 7; at least five are believed to remain in Gaza.

Sapir Cohen, 29, was also freed on Thursday, a day after Yelena Trufanova and Irena Tati — the mother and grandmother of her boyfriend, Sasha Trufanov, who is believed to be a hostage — were released. The four were taken captive together from Nir Oz on October 7, as Sasha’s father, Vitaly, was murdered.

Trufanova and Tati, both natives of Russia who have lived in Israel for decades — were freed outside the framework of the ongoing truce deal, as a "gesture" to Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
, according to Hamas on Wednesday. Earlier this week, Russian-Israeli hostage Roni Krivoi was also freed under the same terms. But since only 8 Israelis were freed on Thursday, Trupanov and Tati were retroactively included in the needed daily tally of 10.

Also freed Thursday was 30-year-old Ilana Gritzewsky, a dual Mexican-Israeli citizen who was taken hostage from Nir Oz along with her boyfriend, Matan Zangauker, 24, who is still held captive.

Gritzewsky made aliyah from Mexico 14 years ago, on the Naale program, and her parents and sister later immigrated to Israel.

Shani Goren, 29, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz on October 7, and returned to Israel on Thursday night. Eyewitnesses said she was loaded onto a trailer with two other families from the kibbutz on October 7.

Goren, a teacher and youth counselor, was grabbed alone from her bed inside her safe room, her mother Tamar Goren said. Freed hostage Eitan Yahalomi, 12 — who was kidnapped from the same kibbutz, as was his father, Ohad, who remains hostage — said after his release that after a couple of weeks in captivity, he was brought together with Goren, who had previously been his counselor, and she cared for him until he was freed.

Also from Nir Oz, 40-year-old Nili Margalit, a nurse at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, was returned to Israel with the latest group of released hostages.

When former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz was released on October 23, she reported that Margalit had been held captive with her, and was working as a nurse, caring for people, "just like she always does," said one of Margalit’s friends in a Kan video.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US sanctions target financial networks assisting Iran military
[Rudaw] The US Department of the Treasury on Wednesday slapped a new round of sanctions against over 20 individuals and entities for their involvement in networks financially assisting Iran’s military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

"Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
generates the equivalent of billions of dollars via commodity sales to fund its destabilizing regional activities and support of multiple regional groups," including Paleostinian Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Hezbollah group, the US Treasury Department said in a statement.

Included in the sanctions package are people and firms based in areas such as Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, as well as entities linked to Iran’s Sepehr Energy, which the US alleges is a front company for Iranian oil sales.

Iran continues "to engage in illicit finance schemes to generate funds to fan conflict and spread terror throughout the region," said Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. "The United States remains committed to exposing elements of the Iranian military and its complicit partners abroad to disrupt this critical source of funds."

The latest round of sanctions comes amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran over the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Iranian proxies have repeatedly attacks American assets and bases in the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria, over Washington’s support for Israel.

Washington has responded to these attacks on numerous occasions, striking Iran-backed groups in both countries in retaliation for dozens of rocket and drone attacks on American bases.

The sanctions block assets that any of the designated entities and individuals possess under US jurisdiction and bars all American companies or individuals from engaging with them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2023 2023-12-01 03:01 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  "The United States remains committed to exposing elements of the Iranian military and its complicit partners abroad to disrupt this critical source of funds."

Iran knows who to turn to for funding.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2023 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  They hate competition, don't they?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/01/2023 6:18 Comments || Top||

#3  "Included in the sanctions package are people and firms based in areas such as Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, as well as entities linked to Iran’s Sepehr Energy, which the US alleges is a front company for Iranian oil sales." Sepehr Energy Co. (PJSC) was registered and officially began its activity in Tehran on 02/06/2010.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 12/01/2023 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Attacks On Americans Since 10/7: 74
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/01/2023 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  How can you turn over billions in cash to Iran, yet sanction financial networks assisting Iran?

Is there some financial network which reroutes the US cash to lobbyists, the way God intended?

Why can't they sanction them?
Posted by: badanov || 12/01/2023 12:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Why can't they sanction them?

Because democrats are stupid with no logical or follow thought thinking abilities.

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/01/2023 15:18 Comments || Top||



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