Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 94, was seen for years as the ultimate religious authority by Hamas. In 2001, he ruled that Palestinian men and women could carry out suicide attacks against Israeli civilian targets, a ruling he revised years later.
Lebanese terrorist group issuing ration cards for food, importing medicine, and readying storage for fuel from its patron Iran in preparation for all-out collapse of fracturing state.
Earlier this week, Iranian authorities claimed they could enrich to 90% "if they wanted," and called to step up enrichment following a suspected cyberattack at the Natanz nuclear reactor.
“The core of the administration's Iran strategy is a devil's bargain that will funnel billions into Iran's imperial project across the Middle East in exchange for a temporary reprieve from Iran's relentless march towards nuclear-weapons capability," said John Hannah, a senior fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
There is speculation that Iran may have been behind it, and specifically the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Press TV, the Iranian state television’s English-language arm, separately said that the IAEA had been informed of the move. It said the enrichment would begin as of Wednesday.
An explosive device smuggled into Natanz was remotely activated on Sunday and was so damaging that it disabled the facility's main and backup electric systems, the New York Times reports, citing an unnamed intelligence source.
The decision means Khaled Mashaal, who is based in Qatar, will not seek to oust Ismail Haniyeh as political bureau chief.
The decree signed by Lebanese Public Works Minister Michel Najjar, however, still requires the signatures of the defense minister, prime minister and president to go into effect.
The bloc, which also hit three Iranian prisons with asset freezes, blacklisted Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards, the most powerful and heavily armed security force in the Islamic Republic.
