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Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, Egypt, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 as an attempt to modernize Islamic society.
In April 2025, the Jordanian government banned the Muslim Brotherhood following the discovery of a plot that authorities claimed endangered national security.1
The government reported that it had thwarted an attempt to illegally import and manufacture weapons, including rockets, explosives, and drones. In connection with this plot, authorities arrested 16 individuals who were identified as having ties to the organization. This action occurred against a backdrop of rising domestic opposition toward the government’s reserved response to the Israel-Hamas War, which had previously contributed to a surge in electoral support for the Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Action Front (IAF) in the September 2024 parliamentary elections.12