MIDDLE EAST January 30, 2018 7 U.S.... Court Upholds Jail (Continued From Page One) is to bring Syria closer to creating a post-war constitution, after two days of separate UN-backed talks in Vienna last week closed Term for Prominent Shia Cleric without any sign the warring sides had met face-to-face to discuss the groundwork for the document. The Kremlin has downplayed expectations of the event, with MANAMA (Press TV) – A court Sheikh Qassim is reportedly suf- presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling journalists Mon- in Bahrain has upheld a one-year fering from high blood pressure, jail term for prominent Shia cleric, diabetes, and heart disease. day that “breakthroughs in the task of political regulation in Syria Sheikh Isa Qassim, who has been United Nations spokesman Ste- are hardly possible.” stripped of his nationality by the phane Dujarric demanded last No- He added however that under-representation will not “disrupt Al Khalifah regime and is suffer- vember that the top Shia cleric be this congress or undermine its importance,” calling the Sochi ing from deteriorating health, and released, and asked for immediate talks a “very important” step toward peace. confirmed a decision to revoke the medical attention for him. cleric’s citizenship. Bahraini regime deports two The Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC), the country’s main A legal source, speaking on con- Shia brothers to opposition group which is backed by , said follow- dition of anonymity, said Bahrain’s Meanwhile, Bahraini officials ing the talks in Vienna on Thursday and Friday that it would not Supreme Court confirmed the have deported two Shia brothers attend the Sochi congress. same ruling for two of the 81-year- to Iraq as the ruling Al Khalifah old cleric’s aides, Sheikh Hussein dynasty presses ahead with its And authorities from Syria’s Kurdish autonomous region said Mahrus and Mirza al-Obaidli. heavy-handed crackdown and Sunday they would not participate because of an ongoing offen- On May 21 last year, a Bahraini persecution of the members of the sive on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin by Turkey. court convicted Sheikh Qassim religious community in the coun- Prominent Bahraini Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim Moscow, which has spearheaded rounds of talks from the start of illegal collection of funds and try. of last year in Kazakhstan’s Astana, initially hoped to convene money laundering and sentenced Human rights activists published ruary 2011. lives and hundreds of others sus- him to one year in jail suspended the pictures of Ibrahim and Ismail They are demanding that the tained injuries or got arrested as a the congress in Sochi last November but those efforts collapsed for three years. Darwish in Iraq’s holy city of Al Khalifah dynasty relinquish result of the Al Khalifah regime’s following a lack of agreement among co-sponsors. It also ordered him to pay hours after deportation from Iraq. power and allow a just system crackdown. A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said $265,266 in fines. The court rul- Bahraini monarch King Hamad representing all Bahrainis to be On March 5, 2017, Bahrain’s at the weekend he would send his Syria peace negotiator to Sochi. ing sparked widespread demon- bin Isa Al Khalifah stripped a established. parliament approved the trial of Staffan de Mistura arrived in Sochi Monday, Russian agencies strations across the kingdom. number of citizens, including the Manama has gone to great civilians at military tribunals in a Bahraini authorities stripped the two brothers, of their nationality lengths to clamp down on any measure blasted by human rights reported. cleric of his citizenship on June back in November 2012. sign of dissent. On March 14, campaigners as being tantamount Russia has long sought UN participation in the Sochi congress 20, 2016. They later dissolved the Thousands of anti-regime pro- 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia to imposition of an undeclared to lend credibility to its diplomatic efforts, and is reportedly hop- and the martial law countrywide. Islamic Enlightenment Institu- testers have held demonstrations ing to establish a committee to create a constitution with UN- tion, founded by him, in addition in Bahrain on an almost daily ba- were deployed to assist Bahrain in King Hamad ratified the con- to the opposition al-Risala Islamic sis ever since a popular uprising its crackdown. stitutional amendment on April 3 backing. Association. began in the country in mid-Feb- Scores of people have lost their last year. After two years of military support for Syria, President Vladimir Putin announced in December last year the partial withdrawal of forces from the country, saying their task had been largely com- ‘Gaza on Edge of Collapse Amid Zionist Blockade’ pleted. GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – said in an emailed statement. the blockade imposed on Gaza, ment of people and one for com- The situation in the Gaza Strip is “We call on the Palestinian as well as the Palestinian gov- mercial activities and trade. on the edge of collapse due to 12 health minister to visit Gaza as ernment for the sanctions that it Egypt, meanwhile, controls one years of a tight blockade by the Zi- soon as possible and bear his re- has imposed on the enclave since crossing point on its border with Brits... onist regime, said the Gaza-based sponsibility toward the situation June last year. Gaza, which has been closed due (Continued From Page One) National Corporation, a committee in the Gaza Strip’s hospitals,” The statement also called on hu- to a worsening security situation working to limit the impact of the said the statement, saying that manitarian organizations to send in the Sinai Peninsula. reason to go than to join in on this.” blockade. hospitals are in severe shortage of emergency relief convoys to the “Rates of poverty and unem- But Caroline Wills-Wright wrote: “Hmm, obviously the guy The group is calling on the inter- fuel and medical supplies. Strip, “which lives right now in ployment in Gaza have reached as beneath contempt but shouldn’t the biggest protests in this national community and the Arab “Starving the people of Gaza has the middle of an economic catas- horrible figures, where more world to bear moral responsibility been ongoing during 12 years of trophe.” than 80 percent of the population country be aimed at our own politicians and their folly?” for the more than 2 million people the Israeli siege,” it said. The occupying regime controls needs urgent aid,” the committee Famous names got in on the act too, using Twitter to voice their who have been living under siege The organization held the oc- two major crossing points to and said. thoughts on an official visit by the U.S. president. in the Gaza Strip for 12 years, it cupying regime responsible for out of Gaza - one for the move- On January 20, thousands of protesters gathered in London to demonstrate against Trump on the anniversary of his inaugura- ‘Two Zionist Officers Involved Qatar Inks Agreements With tion and the Women’s March London. Last May, an online petition against the government’s plan to in Car Bomb Attack’ Oman Amid Saudi Blockade invite Trump on a state visit received more than 1.8 million sig- BEIRUT (Dispatches) – A recent requesting anonymity, told al-Akh- DOHA (Press TV) – Qatar has and imposed a trade and diplomat- natures. report has exposed that two Zionist bar that one of the Zionist agents inked a memorandum of understand- ic embargo on the emirate in June Trump canceled a trip to the capital for the official opening agents were involved in the car bomb was a man holding a duel Swedish- ing with Oman to promote investment last year, after officially accusing of the new U.S. embassy building earlier this month, saying he explosion in the southern Lebanese Iraqi citizenship, while another was and trade between the two countries it of “sponsoring terrorism”. Doha was skipping the trip because he disapproved of the location and city of Sidon, which slightly wounded a Georgian woman working for the amid an ongoing blockade imposed strongly denied the allegation. price of the new embassy. a member of the Palestinian Islamic Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. on Doha by a Saudi-led bloc. The Saudi-led bloc presented the resistance movement, Hamas, earlier The officials went on to say that, The Omani news agency ONA emirate with a list of demands, But it was widely reported that the White House was worried this month. Mossad kept Hamdan under sur- reported that the agreement was among them downgrading ties with about demonstrations during the president’s visit. According to a report published veillance for more than seven signed in Muscat on Sunday. , and gave it an ultimatum to London Mayor Sadiq Khan said it was a sign the president had by Lebanon’s -language al- months. According to the report, the mem- comply with them or face conse- “got the message” that Londoners would not welcome him or Akhbar newspaper on Monday, the About six months ago, Hamdan orandum covers a wide range of co- quences. Doha, however, refused to pair was aided by two locals in the lived in the Sirub district of Sidon, operation sectors including the pro- meet the demands and said that they his policies in the city. assassination operation against Mo- located 40 kilometers (25 miles) duction and export of food products were meant to force the country to hammed Hamdan on January 14. south of the capital, Beirut, and a from Oman to Qatar. surrender its sovereignty. They left Lebanon using Georgian, Lebanese national, identified as Omani Agriculture Minister Fuad Turkey and Iran were quick to ease Book... Swedish and Iraqi passports. Muhammad H, lived in a nearby al-Sajwani said the agreement re- the economic stranglehold on the (Continued From Page One) The report added that Lebanese neighborhood. flected the “solid relationship” be- tiny Arab nation, flying food and security officials have now man- Mossad then assigned its agent to tween the two nations. other commodities as the diplomatic aged to identify the two Zionist of- closely monitor the high-ranking For his part, Qatar’s Minister of fallout escalated. to receive nuclear cooperation from certain countries. ficers, obtain their photographs and Hamas figure. Municipalities and Environment On January 10, a high-ranking “While nuclear scientists across the entire Middle East have copies of their identity documents, After that, Hamdan moved to al- Mohamed bin Abdallah al-Rumaihi, Qatari official described the ongo- been assassinated by Israeli-hired terrorists, the regime’s nuclear the date of their entry into and exit Boustan al-Kabir area of Sidon, who headed the Qatari delegation, ing Saudi-led diplomatic and trade experts are allowed access to some countries’ nuclear facilities,” from Lebanon, their respective and the second Lebanese national, hailed his country’s “strategic rela- boycott against his energy-rich roles in the operation and the na- identified as 38-year-old Ahmad tions” with the sultanate. Persian Gulf country as “economic he said, without naming those countries. tionality they used to operate under Baytiyah and strongly believed to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab warfare,” stressing that Doha plans The book also shows how Tel Aviv murdered German nuclear disguise. be main suspect in the assassination Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt to seek compensation for those hit scientists working for Egypt in the 1950s and early 1960s, and Lebanese intelligence officials, bid, tracked him. all cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar by the sanctions. details the operations targeting Iranian scientists. Bergman calls the Israeli assassination apparatus “the most ro- U.S. Delivers Helicopters to Bolster Jordan’s Military bust streamlined assassination machine in history.” He says many of the Zionist techniques were later adopted by the U.S. ZARQA, Jordan (Reuters) – The United strategy. tage rescue by special forces. “The command-and-control systems, the war rooms, the meth- States has delivered the last batch of Black Hawk Washington has announced it plans to stay in Jordan is among a few Arab states that have helicopters for Jordan’s rapid deployment force Syria long after Daesh has been defeated and taken part in a U.S.-led air campaign against ods of information gathering and the technology of the pilotless to bolster border defenses and engage in cross- has military bases in the northeastern part of alleged terrorist group. aircraft, or drones, that now serve the Americans and their allies border operations “against terrorists”. the war-torn country. The Black Hawk helicopters are central tso were all in large part developed in Israel,” he writes. U.S. officials say that military aid to Jordan, In a handover ceremony attended by U.S. the U.S.-funded quick reaction force set up The Zionist spy agency Mossad, the author says, tried to prevent one of the largest recipients of its foreign mili- Central Command chief General Joseph Votel by Jordan to counter Daseh, which remains a his progress in authoring the work by approaching his subjects tary financing, helps to build the kingdom’s and Jordan’s Chief of Staff General Mahmoud threat despite having been driven out of large military capabilities as part of a wider regional Freihat, the helicopters landed in a mock hos- areas of neighboring Iraq and Syria. and warning them against giving interviews.