Jordan accused the Muslim brothers of planning attacks in the country and introduced a general ban on the group on Wednesday, in a move that could close the largest opposition party of the nation, the Islamic action front, the group's political arm in Jordan.
The front of the Islamic action won a support point in Parliament last year after making a campaign against the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Here more on Muslim brotherhood and on its reach through the Middle East.
What is Muslim brotherhood?
Muslim brotherhood is a Sunni Islamist movement founded in 1928 by Hassan Al-Banna, a school teacher in Egypt, who claimed that a religious renewal would help the Muslim world to reject colonialism and western influence.
Sometimes it was contradictory for the group's attention and avoided defining what an Islamic government would be like. Al-Banna was assassinated in 1949 at the age of 43.
The doctrine of the group, however, spread throughout the region, where many political movements, which operate freely and independently, trace their roots to the Egyptian Muslim brothers.
Some related groups use the Muslim brothers in their name, but others do not. In the same way, some groups are explicitly linked to the Muslim brothers, while others are derivatives or descendants.
The Muslim brothers denounced violence, but some people who are frustrated by the group's position have left more militant organizations, such as Al Qaeda.
What happened in Jordan?
Wednesday's announcement came a week after Giordani's security services said they arrested 16 people accused of threatening national security with weapons and explosives and plans to produce drones.
The interior minister Giordani, Mazin at Farrayeh, suggested in a press conference that the plot was connected to the group, stating that “elements of the Muslim brotherhood” had “worked in the darkness to carry out activities that threaten the stability and tampering of safety and national unity”.
The Muslim brothers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Jordan's ban.
This is not the first time that Jordan moves against the group.
In 2016, Jordan closed the headquarters of the Muslim brothers in Amman, the capital and in 2020, a court took measures to dissolve the group. But at the front of Islamic action it was allowed to continue the operations.
Experts say that Wednesday's ban on Wednesday could be related to global rejection against Hamas, who was founded by a man active in the Muslim brothers during the first Palestinian revolt against Israeli control of the West Bank and Gaza.
“My hypothesis is that the Giordano government feels under pressure from the passion of the Trump administration to push people from the Gaza Strip to other countries,” said Jon B. Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. But he said that the reasoning was in the end was unclear.
“There is a way in which Gaza is at stake now, which creates domestic concerns for the Giordano government, which can make them less tolerant of political opposition and make them more frightening than internal unrest,” he added.
Much of the population of Jordan is Palestinian and Jordan experienced local discontent during the war in Gaza, especially after the Jordan government supported Israel in breaking down Iranian missiles last spring.
An internal fracture in the Muslim brothers in Jordan has grown in recent years. Moderate members want to calm the tensions between the government and the group, while the most aggressive factions favor the challenge of the country's sovereigns on rights and reforms.
How is the group all over the world?
During the first term of President Trump, his administration took into consideration the labeling of the Muslim brothers a terrorist organization, which would have imposed large travel and economic restrictions on the people who interact with the remote group and shirtly knitted.
The proposal broke the Middle East and was accepted with criticism by officials and experts, who said that the move could have unwanted consequences.
Some movements of Muslim brothers in the Arab countries have supported democratic elections, causing friction in places led by authoritarian governments.
The support of the group has reduced to places where it was once popular, like Egypt and Tunisia, in part because governments have reduced to the group. In Egypt, for example, the military filed the first democratically elected president of the country, Mohamed Morsi, a former brothers' leader who was elected between the Arab spring. The leaders of the country in 2013 prohibited the group and imprisoned many of its members.
What is the next for the Islamic action front?
It is not immediately clear how the ban will influence the operations of the Islamic action front.
On Wednesday, the police surrounded the group's headquarters in Amman and, in a press conference, the party secretary of the party Wael Saqqa, said that the members were surprised by the research conducted by the authorities but voluntarily respected.
The Islamic action front did not immediately respond to a commentary request.
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