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February 2, 2018       Share:    

Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5079659,00.html

U.S. Diplomat: Blacklisting Hamas Head Intended to Prevent the Next War

(Ynet News) The U.S. decision to put the head of the Hamas terrorist organization, Ismail Haniyeh, on its terror blacklist is an essential step towards "drying up" Hamas, U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Nathan Sales told Ynet in an interview on Thursday. "It is a crime under U.S. law for people to engage in transactions with these designated terrorists," he said. Iran, Hamas' biggest financial supporter, will thus be declared in violation of U.S. law. "The United States is under no illusions about Iran's malign intentions in the region, nor are we under any illusions about its ability to project its power and to shed blood around the world....Iran can be stopped. Iran is not invincible." Sales emphasized the importance of restricting "the ability of terrorist organizations to raise money (and) to inspire new recruits....We want to stop war from happening by degrading terrorist organizations and preventing them from accumulating the weapons, manpower and confidence that they would need to launch a new war."

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