Report: Iran behind attempt to funnel millions of dollars into Gaza
Iran is responsible for an attempt last week to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas in the Gaza Strip by way of Egypt, the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram reported on Saturday.
The money was found in suitcases in the car of Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha. The suitcases reportedly contained $9 million along with 2 million Euros.
An Egyptian official said the money represents "only a small portion of the large amounts of money Iran has funneled to Hamas over the last week."
The new axis of terror.
Who will stop it, effectively and consistently?
Will the US? or Cyprus? or the UN?
Check:
The sanctions department of the United Nations Security Council on Saturday informed Cyprus that the cargo of the Iranian ship seized en route to Gaza in late January violates UNSC resolution 1747, which forbids the trafficking of weapons with Iran.
The ship will not be returned to Iran, Cypriot officials said Saturday, but they refused to say what exactly was found onboard the boat or whether the cargo contravened UN resolutions.
Cyprus inspected the Monchegorsk twice after it arrivedafter it arrived Jan. 29 under suspicion of ferrying weapons from Iran to Hamas fighters in Gaza. The U.S. military stopped the ship last month in the Red Sea, and said it found artillery shells and other arms aboard. But it could not legally detain the ship, which continued to Port Said, Egypt, and then to Cyprus.
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Not the article on the Iranina vessel: States it violated the UN 1747, but also says later that the US Navy had no legal way to stop it.
Reality in action, I'd say: The UN says no, then won't let anyone enforce it.
As a UN member, aren't we required to enforce UN Sanctions? I guess not. Green light to Iran to kill as they want.
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