(Reuters) – Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel offer to normalise ties as “phoney” and implicated Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The deal agreed on Friday marked the third Arab federal government after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to reserve hostilities with Israel in the last two months.
” Pay enough ransom, close your eyes to the crimes versus Palestinians, then you’ll be taken off the so-called ‘terrorism’ blacklist,” the ministry tweeted in English. “Obviously, the list is as phoney as the U.S. battle versus terrorism. Shameful.”
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday he would take Sudan off the list once it had actually transferred $335 million it had vowed to pay in payment.
Khartoum has actually considering that placed the funds in a special escrow represent victims of al Qaeda attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in1998
Trump also stated the Palestinians “are wanting to do something” however used no evidence. Palestinian leaders have condemned recent Arab overtures to Israel as a betrayal of their nationalist cause for statehood in Israeli-occupied areas. They have declined to engage with the Trump administration, seeing it as biased in favour of Israel.
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