{"id":7262,"date":"2020-02-03T19:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2021-04-18T19:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:18:35","slug":"europe-cowers-in-front-of-iran-and-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/02\/03\/europe-cowers-in-front-of-iran-and-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Cowers in Front of Iran and Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/02\/03\/europe-cowers-in-front-of-iran-and-hezbollah\/lebanon-syria-conflict-hezbollah\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7263\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/europe-hezbollah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/europe-hezbollah.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/europe-hezbollah-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The European Union has resisted pressure to outlaw all of Hezbollah. European officials, who make an artificial distinction between Hezbollah\u2019s military and political wing, regularly claim that a total ban might destabilize Lebanon\u2019s political system, which is now dominated by the terrorist group.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Europe Cowers in Front of Iran and Hezbollah<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15510\/europe-iran-hezbollah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | February 3, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The British finance ministry has added the entirety of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah \u2014 Arabic for \u201cThe Party of Allah\u201d \u2014 to its sanctions list and has ordered a freeze on any assets it may have in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The move, aimed at cracking down on Hezbollah\u2019s fundraising activities in Britain, adds increased enforcement teeth to the British government\u2019s February 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/hizballah-to-be-banned-alongside-other-terrorist-organisations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> no longer to distinguish between Hezbollah\u2019s military and political wings and to <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Lords\/2019-02-28\/debates\/E661F0BE-B640-4241-853F-1C788818B7CC\/TerrorismAct2000(ProscribedOrganisations)(Amendment)Order2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">classify<\/a> the entire organization as a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the Netherlands, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkskrant.nl\/nieuws-achtergrond\/bot-wil-hezbollah-op-zwarte-lijst-eu~b06f041f\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlawed<\/a> all of Hezbollah in 2004, the UK now has the most comprehensive set of sanctions against the terrorist group in Europe. Being a member of, or providing support for, Hezbollah is a <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/849493\/20191101_Proscription__SG_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime<\/a> in Britain punishable by up to ten years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15510\/europe-iran-hezbollah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has resisted pressure to outlaw all of Hezbollah. European officials, who make an artificial distinction between Hezbollah\u2019s military and political wing, regularly claim that a total ban might destabilize Lebanon\u2019s political system, which is now dominated by the terrorist group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,231],"tags":[180,9,129,153,5],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union","category-hezbollah","tag-britain","tag-europe","tag-european-union-2","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe Cowers in Front of Iran and Hezbollah - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/02\/03\/europe-cowers-in-front-of-iran-and-hezbollah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Europe Cowers in Front of Iran and Hezbollah - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The European Union has resisted pressure to outlaw all of Hezbollah. 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