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| Thanks to #British for its widely-respected step to add entire #Hezbollah movement to its list of terrorist groups | |
| 2020-01-18 | |
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Britannia’s finance ministry on Friday said it had added Leb’s entire Hezbollah movement to its list of terrorist groups subject to asset freezing. The ministry previously only targeted the Shiite organization’s military wing but has now listed the whole group after the government designated it a terrorist organization last March. The change requires any individual or institution in Britannia with accounts or financial services connected to Hezbollah to suspend them or face prosecution. The group had "publicly denied a distinction between its military and political wings," the Treasury said in a notice posted on its website. "The group in its entirety is assessed to be concerned in terrorism and was proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK in March 2019," it added. Its capture of two Israeli soldiers in 2006 sparked a 34-day war in which 1,200 people were killed. The group is seen as a key component of Shiite-majority Iran’s strategy for regional influence. Britannia’s move comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, after the US killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in an air strike earlier this month. Tehran retaliated by firing a volley of missiles at US troops stationed in Iraqi military bases. Britannia currently proscribes 75 international terrorist organizations under terrorism legislation passed in 2000. | |
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| #1 And CAIR? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-01-18 09:48 |