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Hungary says it is withdrawing from International Criminal Court as Israeli PM Netanyahu visits country

Hungary is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that comes shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the country on Thursday for a visit with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Netanyahu, who is wanted by the ICC on allegations of war crimes in Gaza, and his wife were greeted on the tarmac by an honor guard and Hungarian Minister of Defense Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky and Israeli Ambassador to Hungary Maya Kadosh.
He is expected to be in Hungary for four days.
Hungary – a founding member of the ICC – is obligated to arrest anyone wanted by the court and turn them over, but Orban has described the warrant for Netanyahu as «brazen, cynical and completely unacceptable.»
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Hungary announced it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as it is hosting Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the court for alleged war crimes in Gaza. ( Janos Kummer/Getty Images)
Orban’s Chief of Staff Gergely Gulyas told state media that Hungary would launch its withdrawal process later in the day on Thursday.
The withdrawal doesn’t come as a surprise as Orban questioned the country’s involvement in the ICC in February following President Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on the court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan.
«It’s time for Hungary to review what we’re doing in an international organization that is under U.S. sanctions,» Orban said on X in February.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and his former defense chief, Yoav Gallant, last year. (Selman Aksunger/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Hungary’s parliament will likely approve the bill to begin the year-long withdrawal process from the ICC since it is controlled by Orban’s Fidesz Party, according to Reuters.
Orban has strongly supported Netanyahu over the years and, in the past, has been quick to block EU statements or actions criticizing Israel.
Israel has rejected the ICC’s accusations, which come after the Jewish State launched a war against Hamas following the terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel that left 1,200 dead and more than 250 taken as hostages.
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When the court issued the warrant for Netanyahu and his former defense chief, Yoav Gallant, it said there was reason to believe both men participated in crimes including murder, persecution and starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.
According to the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians during its attack on Gaza.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Iranian regime elites allegedly move millions of dollars out of country amid sanctions

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Members of Iran’s ruling elite are said to have moved «tens of millions of dollars» out of the country as the U.S. imposed fresh sanctions over the regime’s violent protest crackdown, according to reports.
The regime’s «capital flight» came as the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced on Jan. 15 in a release that it was taking «action against the shadow banking networks that allow Iran’s elite to steal and launder revenue generated by the country’s natural resources.»
«There are several reports, some of which are yet to be confirmed, about capital flight in various forms from the Islamic Republic,» Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith sent a letter to Treasury Secretary and acting IRS chief Scott Bessent, pictured here, and IRS CEO Frank Bisignano referring CAIR-California for IRS review. (Al Drago/Getty Images)
If confirmed, Ben Taleblu said, the suspected exodus of money underscores the need for U.S. authorities to track and «freeze and seize» assets tied to sanctioned figures.
«If capital flight has taken place, then these are accounts that the U.S. government should be looking to monitor, block, freeze and seize,» he said.
«At the direction of President Trump, the Treasury Department is sanctioning key Iranian leaders involved in the brutal crackdown against the Iranian people. Treasury will use every tool to target those behind the regime’s tyrannical oppression of human rights,» Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent also said in a statement on Jan. 15.
Bessent went on to reveal in an interview how his department had tracked the wiring of «tens of millions of dollars» out of Iran by leaders.
«We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship, because we can see millions, tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country, snuck out of the country by the Iranian leadership,» Bessent added.
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Treasury sanctions target Iran’s shadow banking as Mojtaba Khamenei allegedly transferred millions overseas, ( QASSEM AL-KAABI/AFP via Getty Images)
«So they are abandoning ship, and we are seeing it come into banks and financial institutions all over the world,» he added.
Iranian figures were said to be moving large sums abroad, with Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei allegedly transferring roughly $328 million overseas as part of an estimated $1.5 billion shift in recent days, Channel 14 reported.
«There were also some reports on social media about large volumes of Bitcoin being transferred, or other kinds of financial assets. I haven’t been able to independently confirm that, but it is something that’s being discussed,» Ben Taleblu added.
«The fact that the Treasury Department is looking at this tells you quite seriously that Washington is also trying to link its foreign economic policy with its national security policy,» he said.
Ben Taleblu also claimed Iran’s shadow banking system has been deeply embedded in global finance, with billions of dollars routed through jurisdictions «including the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Singapore.»
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Trump is weighing U.S. options to respond to Iran’s crackdown on protesters. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo:Toby Melville/Reuters)
«In the past, Washington has tracked the regime’s shadow banking activities, which, unfortunately, even include trade and money laundering through friendlier, more Western-leaning jurisdictions,» Ben Taleblu explained.
«In fact, the Treasury Department identified almost $9 billion of Iranian shadow banking activity that touched U.S. correspondent accounts throughout 2024,» he said.
Ben Taleblu added that the economic pressure campaign places renewed attention on President Donald Trump’s next move.
«All eyes right now are on President Trump to see if he takes a page from the Reagan playbook, the Obama playbook, or something else entirely,» Ben Taleblu said.
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«The million-dollar question is whether there will be something kinetic, especially after the most violent crackdown against protesters in the Islamic Republic’s history.»
«Economic sanctions are helpful and necessary,» he added, «but they are nowhere near sufficient to level the playing field between the street and the state.»
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Hackearon los canales de televisión estatales iraníes y transmitieron un mensaje del ex príncipe heredero Reza Pahlavi

El aparato de propaganda estatal en Irán sufrió este domingo uno de sus mayores golpes. Un grupo de hackers logró vulnerar simultáneamente todos los canales de la televisión pública y difundió a escala nacional un mensaje del príncipe heredero Reza Pahlavi, quien desde el exilio llamó a la población a rebelarse contra el régimen islámico.
La transmisión, que interrumpió la programación habitual por varios minutos, se produjo en el contexto de una de las crisis políticas y sociales más graves que ha enfrentado el país en las últimas décadas.
La irrupción televisiva ocurrió mientras Irán atraviesa una ola de protestas iniciada por el aumento del costo de la vida y que se transformó en un movimiento masivo contra la teocracia en el poder. Grupos de derechos humanos y organizaciones internacionales han reportado miles de muertes como consecuencia de la represión estatal. Según cifras de la ONG Iran Human Rights, al menos 3.428 personas han muerto, aunque otras estimaciones independientes elevan la cifra hasta los 20.000 fallecidos, en un contexto de apagón informativo y bloqueo de internet.
En el mensaje transmitido, Reza Pahlavi instó a los iraníes a “no ceder ante la represión” y a organizarse para provocar un cambio político profundo. El discurso, que hasta ahora circulaba solamente en redes sociales y plataformas bloqueadas dentro del país, fue visto por millones a través de la señal estatal. La acción expuso la vulnerabilidad del aparato comunicacional del régimen y amplificó el impacto simbólico de la figura del príncipe heredero, que ha sido uno de los principales referentes de la oposición en el exilio.
El incidente se produce en un momento en que el acceso a internet en Irán sigue fuertemente restringido. La organización de ciberseguridad Netblocks reportó que, después de diez días de bloqueo casi total, el tráfico de datos volvió a caer tras un breve restablecimiento parcial. Según la entidad, la censura busca ocultar la magnitud real de la represión y dificultar el flujo de información sobre la gravedad de la crisis. “Durante este tiempo, algunos iraníes pudieron dar información detallada sobre la crisis en el terreno”, precisó Netblocks.
En respuesta a la presión interna e internacional, el régimen iraní ordenó la reapertura de escuelas que permanecían cerradas y proclamó el regreso a la “normalidad”, aunque las advertencias oficiales se han endurecido.

El presidente Masud Pezeskian aseguró que “un ataque contra el gran líder de nuestro país equivale a una guerra total contra la nación iraní”, en referencia al ayatolá Alí Khamenei. Las autoridades han acusado a Estados Unidos e Israel de alentar la “sedición” y han amenazado con castigos severos, incluidas condenas a muerte para quienes lideren las protestas.
El portavoz del poder judicial, Asghar Jahangir, advirtió este domingo que los responsables de los disturbios enfrentarán juicios rápidos y no podrán aspirar al perdón estatal. El régimen iraní sostiene que las manifestaciones fueron pacíficas hasta que se convirtieron en “disturbios” promovidos por potencias extranjeras. Khamenei afirmó el sábado que “algunos miles” de muertos son responsabilidad de “agentes” de Estados Unidos e Israel y prometió una represión implacable.
Mientras tanto, el apagón informativo impuesto por las autoridades y el control sobre los medios dificultan la verificación independiente de los hechos. A pesar de ello, la filtración del mensaje de Pahlavi a través de la televisión pública marcó un quiebre: nunca antes un discurso opositor había logrado penetrar el sistema estatal de comunicación en tiempo real para llegar a la totalidad del país.
El episodio se suma a la creciente presión internacional. Grandes manifestaciones de apoyo a los manifestantes iraníes se han registrado en Berlín, Londres y París, donde miles de personas exigieron el fin de la represión y el respeto a los derechos humanos.
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