Israeli authorities have stopped dozens of Jewish households of the Lev Tahor ultra-Orthodox sect from fleeing to Iran the place they’d utilized for asylum.
“Israel and the US are working to forestall members of an extremist ultra-Orthodox sect from transferring to Iran, amid fears they may very well be used as a bargaining chip by Tehran,” the Occasions of Israel newspaper reported, noting that the group; which is anti-Zionist, utilized for political asylum in 2018.
The paper mentioned paperwork introduced at a US federal court docket in 2019 confirmed that leaders of the Hasidic group requested asylum in Iran and swore allegiance to Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In accordance with the Ynet Information website, considerations have been constructing that lots of of members of the group, primarily primarily based in Guatemala, may very well be making an attempt to maneuver to Iran after dozens of households have been noticed on the airport in Guatemala, apparently on their strategy to the Kurdistan-Iran border.
The report mentioned their family contacted the Israeli Ministry of International Affairs and the Justice Division and requested them to urgently contact their Guatemalan counterparts to forestall the households from leaving.
In accordance with reviews, the Guatemalan authorities detained various the group’s members who maintain American citizenship.
“The Shalit deal will seem like kid’s play subsequent to this,” the family mentioned, referring to the 2011 prisoner take care of Hamas wherein Israel launched 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in trade for soldier Gilad Shalit.
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