Meanwhile, Israeli and Brazilian officials have begun initial discussions to coordinate president-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s visit to Israel soon after he is sworn into office.
Boris Zilberman, director of public policy and strategy at the CUFI Action Fund, said that the way things are in Congress at the moment, it may be risky to pin all hopes on an omnibus spending bill passing because such agreement may not be reachable.
The State Department said that it was controlled directly or indirectly with the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the United States designated as a terrorist group in April.
While the elimination of its leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi by U.S. special forces dealt ISIS a setback, it has managed to reorganize and recover from its 2017 defeat.