The move means that, until the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump will have significantly greater military capabilities and a wider range of options for potential action against Iran.
"We'll get to the root of this attacker, whether he had accomplices, whether Iran was behind it. I think we'll find out very soon," Netanyahu said.
"We have never shied away from talks, and we never will, although the United States has targeted our country three times despite having signed an agreement," he was quoted as saying.
Mohammad Manan Raeisi said that he contacted Ghalibaf’s office to recommend that they cancel the judgment, insisting that the imprisonment would lead to officials losing respect for the speaker.
The Treasury alleged that Tajammal and Cavalier Group acted as third-party intermediaries for MODAFL and that Tajammal used his contacts to assist Iran in procuring and distributing weapons.
The arrests comprised the entire newsroom of Matsaddash, a digital platform that has operated since 2018, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
The report, titled Hezbollah Financial Statements, is the first installment in a series set to expose Hezbollah's spending on media, payments to wounded fighters, and its military infrastructure.
The investigation in Mersin is the latest step in an unprecedented legal crackdown on municipalities run by opposition parties in Turkey.
“Without urgent and sustained action, an entire generation of children and young people risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood,” UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi said.
One of the Syrian officials said both sides agreed they held no hostility towards one another, and that Syria assured Hezbollah that it would not intervene militarily in Lebanon to disarm the group.
The investigation looks to establish whether or not the hijacking was motivated by terrorism.
