A reminder, once again, that Blinken is no friend to Israel. Via Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday approved a sanctions waiver that allows Iraq to pay a $2.76 billion gas and electricity debt to Iran that had been blocked by U.S. sanctions on Iran, a senior Iraqi foreign ministry official said. Iran has been unable to access billions of dollars in assets in several...
Six go on trial in Sweden for financing the Islamic State
Via Shariah Finance Watch: Six Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals living in Sweden went on trial in Stockholm on Monday accused of funding terrorism, three of them also charged with plotting a terrorist attack. The first day of the trial focused on the prosecution’s claim that the six men sent funds to the Islamic State to finance its violent jihad operations. The prosecution argued that one of the men...