By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We do not take this step lightly,” the State Department stated. “It reflects the seriousness of the threat we face from the ICC’s politicization and abuse of power.”
The finance minister said he would promote legislation that imposes high compensation on banks whose clients are harmed as a result of their actions.
Was this Rosh Katan and/or Deep State taking a swipe at the president?
Over 10% of UNRWA’s senior educators in Gaza are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
“U.S. citizens have a right to be heard and to challenge the government before the government takes action against them,” a lawyer for the plaintiffs told JNS.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Iran is increasingly relying on key business partners like the Al-Qatirji Company to fund its destabilizing activities and web of terrorist proxies across the region,” a Treasury official stated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The $7 million contract was for ammunition for local police.
By David Isaac
The list of countries imposing sanctions—the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Norway, Canada, Japan, France and others—has grown in recent months.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Unlike President Macron, Jean-Noël Barrot said that denying weapons to the Jewish state would ensure the safety of its citizens.
By David Isaac
Amana's violent settler activities include establishing communities, recruiting new families and building homes. It has been in the sights of activists opposed to Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria for some time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Aug. 21, Ramallah claimed its economy was at risk of collapsing within "days" after Israeli banks stopped accepting Palestinian Authority cash deposits.
Finkelstein said that the case against his company was brought by the two dominant U.S. players in the sector, Mueller Industries and Wieland Copper Products, which account for about 85% of the market.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Hezbollah continues to launch rockets into Israel and fuel regional instability, choosing to prioritize funding violence over taking care of the people it claims to care about,” per the U.S. treasury department.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Russia has now received shipments of these ballistic missiles and will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The US is now sanctioning people and organizations that protect Jews from Arab terror. Where does this end?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move drew criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill, with Sen. Ted Cruz saying it was an example of the White House's appeasement policy toward Tehran.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
These are sanctions on Israelis and like-minded American citizens who disagree with the Biden administration, said Professor Eugene Kontorovich.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"No country should be allowed to harm our sovereignty," Beit El Council head Shai Alon says.
By Avi Abelow
Speaking out against the funneling of aid to Gaza to be stolen by Hamas is not a crime.
For some reason, his family will also be barred from applying for a visa to the United States.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Iran must cease its escalations with regard to its nuclear program as well as its other destabilizing actions,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“The Biden administration is trying to shut down organizations such as Tzav 9 and Regavim,” their lawyer said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It was not Tzav 9, but the Biden administration did not bother to check. If they had, they would have realized that everything we do is non-violent,” the spokeperson said.
The decision comes after discussions with the UN and international organizations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The deadly UAVs "continue to be used by Russia against Ukraine and by regional terrorist proxies against our troops.”
The president’s decision drew criticism from the American Jewish Committee and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I believe that Israel and America have an ironclad relationship, and I have faith in what the Biden administration is doing,” the Senate majority leader said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Hezbollah continues to rely on seemingly legitimate business investments and key facilitators to generate revenue for the group’s operations,” stated Brian Nelson, a U.S. Treasury under secretary.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.N. General Assembly will result in an immediate halt to all transfers of funds to the P.A.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The army said it is not aware of U.S. measures against the battalion but is monitoring the situation.
The moves are the latest actions against Israelis that the Biden administration accused of “undermining peace, security and stability in the West Bank.”
“This is only a small portion of what’s been going on with these illicit trades,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran.(
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denounced "unprecedented sanctions on Israeli citizens whose entire sin is that they settle in Judea and Samaria."
By Josh Hasten
The United States has blacklisted a total of seven Israelis pursuant to President Joe Biden’s Feb. 1 Executive Order, but will not reveal how it determined that they are "undermining peace, security and stability" in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It seems that today all will agree on putting sanctions on both Hamas and the violent settlers who are harassing Palestinians,” Joseph Borrell said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Florida senator wrote to the U.S. defense secretary after a Dutch appeals court’s decision threatened to halt delivery of U.S.-made F-35 parts to Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We're talking about simple families that work in agriculture. We must defend their right to live," Likud lawmaker Amit Halevi told JNS.
"Hamas has sought to leverage a variety of financial transfer mechanisms, including the exploitation of cryptocurrency, to channel funds to support the group’s terrorist activities," an under secretary of the treasury said.
Effective immediately, the terror master's financial assets in E.U. member states will be frozen.
Iran had made two “transactions” for humanitarian purposes from an account in Oman, said Elizabeth Rosenberg, an assistant treasury secretary.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The secretary of state claims the monies will be used only for humanitarian purposes; Tehran says otherwise.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Gallant calls on world powers to prevent the proliferation of weapons once the U.N. arms embargo on the Islamic Republic expires in October.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom will now be permitted to profit in the Islamic Republic without facing sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
This cooperation threatens not only Ukraine but also Iran's neighbors, U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
The US said the network used a web of straw companies and fraudulent tactics that include forging documents and invoices to sell oil on the international market and evade sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The sanctioned companies include Zhonggu Storage and Transportation Co., which operates a commercial crude oil storage facility for Iranian petroleum and provides a conduit for Iranian petroleum trade, and WS Shipping Co., the ship manager for the vessel that transports Iranian petroleum products.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“There will be no connection between developments in Ukraine and the Vienna talks,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has established an inter-ministry team that will examine the effects and consequences of the sanctions on Russia on the Israeli economy and policy.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “as the Lebanese people suffer an economic crisis of historic proportions, Hezbollah continues to engage in illicit activity and amass wealth at the expense of the Lebanese people.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The short bill targets Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President-elect Ebrahim Raisi.
Compensation could take the form of reparations, investment or “measures to prevent a repeat of what Trump did,” says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The sanctions were announced on the one-year anniversary of street protests by Iranians.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 19 entities and individuals on Monday that it accused of providing support to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“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.
The Trump administration effectively cut off the regime from the worldwide fiscal system with an exception for humanitarian purposes.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned six companies based in Iran, the United Arab Emirates and China for allegedly supporting Triliance’s continued involvement in the sale of Iranian petrochemical products.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With sanctions, America seeks to leverage reform in Lebanon, including ensuring that Hezbollah no longer has a grip on the government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We’ll be doing a snapback. You’ll be watching it next week,” says the U.S. president.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The administration hopes the seizures will deter shipping companies from dealing with Iran and Venezuela.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.K. “strongly objects” to Israel’s plan to extend its law to parts of Judea and Samaria and “believes profoundly in a two-state solution,” says British prime minister, but was noncommittal regarding any possible sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Mahan Air has allegedly been operating charter flights to Venezuela for Iranian technicians and technical equipment, using materials sourced from China.
By Noa Amouyal
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, the lawmakers, led by Reps. Ilhan Omar, Raúl M. Grijalva and Barbara Lee, urge the administration to “conduct a sweeping review” of the sanctions campaign.
Turkey provides a home for Hamas and allows Hamas to plot terror attacks against Israel from its territory.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The network was allegedly smuggling lethal aid from Iran to Yemen on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s Quds Force.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
This is the first time the world body has imposed sanctions on Iran since lifting penalties three years ago, following the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
"The FIFA Council has decided to refrain from imposing any sanctions or other measures on either the Israel FA or the Palestinian FA..."
Cardin and Schumer called on their colleagues in both chambers to quickly advance the legislation when Congress reconvenes in September.
Netanyahu made it clear that Israel would still continue to closely monitor Iran’s activities.
By JNi.Media
Unlike the US, which has kept quiet on the capitulation to Iran’s long range missile ambitions, the Iranians have been bragging about it.
In exchange, the US will offer clemency to 7 Iranian prisoners and reportedly other very major concessions.
How can it be a "good deal" if Khamenei" is encouraging calls of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel"?
Iran has already been able to free up some 20% of its frozen assets, around $19 billion. At best, that's without doing anything, and at worse, that's while continuing to rush towards a nuclear bomb.
Iran has deep financial ties with Venezuela and other South American countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York follows Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee to condemn BDS.
There is a new American-Israeli peace process between Netanyahu and Obama.
Obama figures he can deal with Iran by letting it humiliate him.
Iran already is threatening to rip up the deal if Obama does not annul all sanctions forever.
Israel remains a lone outpost for those who know that talking to liars is not a diplomatic solution.
By JTA
Irwin Cotler, a veteran human rights activist and member of Canada’s parliament, says being banned from Russia is an “honor.” When Russia issued its blacklist of 13 Canadians on Monday, Cotler was quick to express his pleasure at being included. ”I wear my exclusion from Russia as a badge of honor and am proud to […]
The Obama administration imposed sanctions on seven Russians and four Ukrainians in retaliation on Monday in response to the apparently imminent annexation by Russia of the Crimean peninsula of the Ukraine. Among those sanctioned were advisers to Russian President Vladimir Putin and parliament members in and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The European Union has […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran, which he called “our second home. The ayatollah in return “described the current brotherly and friendly relations between the two countries as unparalleled in recent centuries,” Iran’s official Press TV reported. Erdogan apparently has made another about face in his roller coaster policies […]
The universities and the local progressive culture make Pacific Northwest a hotbed of Israel hatred.
The 26 senators basically made a stand against President Obama.
By JTA
The United States is prepared to move against violators of its sanctions against Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. “Our enforcement of the sanctions regime will be as unflinching as ever, so any CEO, general counsel or businessperson who thinks now might be a time to test our […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Congress on Tuesday that new sanctions against Iran would be “gratuitous” and could harm any agreement with Iran as well as relations with world powers in the P5+1 group. Speaking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee before leaving for another trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority and […]
The official text from President Obama on the P5+1 deal with Iran.
The US talks with Iran about easing sanctions, but an Israeli activist lawyer says Obama overlooks the fact that Tehran owes American terror victims billions of dollars.
Never underestimate Iran’s technology. Never underestimate Iran’s capability to lie. It claims it has a drone that can reach Israel. And if is true, an expert suggests to The Jewish Press, “So what?
Obama is used to Netanyahu bickering with him, but when a majority of Israelis, usually gung-ho on anything that comes out Washington, say they distrust the president, something is rotten in the White House.
Home Front Defense and Communications Minister Gilad Erdan said Thursday morning he was “astounded” at U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim at a Senate committee session Wednesday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is arguing against a deal with Iran before it is concluded. “I have not heard such a claim for many years,” Erdan […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Wednesday there are three choices on dealing with the Iranian threat – a bad deal, war or sanctions. “I would even say that a bad deal is liable to lead to the second, undesired, result,” he added. “There is no reason to submit to Iranian diktat; neither is […]
By Adam Levick
You don’t even need to believe that antisemitism is at play to be contemptuous of the extraordinary myopia displayed in the Guardian report.
The US administration has again sought a delay in renewed and firmer sanctions against Iran in the hopes of convincing that country, through diplomacy, to pull back from its nuclear weapons program.
By JTA
The National Security Council has asked Congressmen at a White House briefing to delay passing new Iran sanctions, according to BuzzFeed. The meeting with top staffers from congressional committees dealing with Iran sanctions was called after the Obama administration launched renewed talks this month with Iran in the wake of pledges from its newly elected […]
The Obama administration is considering to back down and allow Iran to retains its uranium enrichment facilities, despite strong objections from Saudi Arabia and Israel, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The world’s major powers are scheduled to meet with Iran this week in a new round of negotiations on its nuclear program, which the […]
Bibi dared to mention the NY Times' own shoddy record of believing dictators on the threshold of nuclear weapons capability.
Iran for years has been trying to get Russia’s advanced S-300 missile system that can down commercial airplanes. Putin, feeling his oats after leading Obama by the nose, is ready to supply the goods.
By JTA
British rocker Roger Waters published an open letter calling on fellow musicians to join a boycott of Israel. “I write to you now, my brothers and sisters in the family of Rock and Roll, to ask you to join with me, and thousands of other artists around the world, to declare a cultural boycott on […]
Iran’s lack of hard currency because of economic sanctions may force food and medicine shortages as the local Rial currency continues to tumble and inflation soars to more than 40 percent . “Iran is an economical wreck,” Yahya Ale Eshaq, a former trade minister, told an Iranian business newspaper last week. President Hassan Rohani said […]