Jordan’s interior minister on Wednesday announced that the kingdom was banning the Muslim Brotherhood and promoting its “ideology” was now illegal.

Farrayeh alleged that the group had attempted to smuggle and destroy a large number of documents in order to “hide its activities and suspicious affiliations”, and that the explosives and weapons were being moved between cities in the kingdom and stored in residential neighbourhoods.

He alleged that rockets were being manufactured and concealed in the outskirts of Amman, with training and recruitment operations taking place both domestically and abroad.

In September, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), won the most votes in Jordan’s parliamentary elections, driven by its stance on Palestine.