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Israeli military vehicles cross the fence to the buffer zone witrh Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 24: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with fellow Brics leaders pose for a family photo with new Bric members at the last day of the Brics summit fellow leaders president, Xi Jinping, China's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, Iranian president is Ebrahim Raisi, on the closing day of the BRICS summit at the Sandton Convention Center in the Sandton district of Johannesburg on August 24, 2023, South Africa. The Brics summit, held in South Africa between 22-24 August 2023. Brics is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. New Members are Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia. Some of the things are discussed during the summit is if to expand Brics and accept new members like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and a Brics currency. Vladimir Putin wanted to attend the meetings but South African president Cyril Ramaphosa managed to talk him out of it, as he risked being arrested while in in South Africa, as the ICC, International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Mr. Putin's on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Former US Congresswoman is Now Lobbyist Pushing Weapons Sales to UAE Dictatorship

MIAMI, FL - JANUARY 30: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) speaks to the media as she criticizes President Donald Trump's new executive order barring US entry for natives of seven Muslim-majority countries as she makes her way to her Washington, DC flight at Miami International Airport on January 30, 2017 in Miami, Florida. Ros-Lehtinen said among other things that any future executive order from President Donald Trump on any issue should comply with existing laws and regulations. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

U.S. Congress: Don't Meet with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – or Any Other Lobbyist Representing Abusive Middle East Governments

Nadeam Elshami, Lobbyist Pushing Weapons Flow to Egyptian Goverment

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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Storm clouds gather near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) and other Senate Republicans said that they will not vote to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government that would include an increase to the debt ceiling. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Congress Should Cut Ties with Lobbyist Ed Royce, Rights Groups say

February 11, 2022

UNITED STATES - MAY 16: Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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Ed Royce: Former Chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee, Now Agent for Egyptian Dictatorship

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Michael Petruzzello is the Managing Director of the international public relations firm Qorvis Communications. He is also a longtime accomplice of the Saudi Arabian government.

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