A lawmaker said the recent US decision to speed up the timetable for moving its embassy in Israel to Beit-ul-Moqaddas is a sign of Washington’s global isolation after it failed to line up any major country with its provocative move. In an interview with ICANA on Tuesday, Qasem Jasemi, a member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said, “Beit-ul-Moqaddas will never become the capital of the Zionist regime because Quds is the inseparable part of Islam.” Jasemi slammed the US move as a flagrant violation of international laws and said the decision would only backfire and bring more difficulties for the Israeli regime. US President Donald Trump announced last December that the US recognized Beit-ul-Moqaddas as Israel’s capital, infuriating even Washington’s allies, both Arabs and Europeans. Last month, US Vice President Mike Pence had said the embassy move would take place in 2019. But US officials said on Friday they expected the embassy to open in May, bringing forward Trump’s contentious plan by at least a year. Rejecting Trump’s move, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the bloc supports “the international consensus from which Trump departed”.
