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White House accuses Iran of gifting 'several hundred' drones to Russia
Fox News ^ | July 12, 2022 | Caitlin McFall

Posted on 07/12/2022 4:06:27 PM PDT by McGruff

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To: fhayek

Sure, because nobody knew Russia is Iran’s best friend in dealing with the West.


21 posted on 07/12/2022 4:21:11 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Mark17

Obama gifted one of ours to Iran a few years back.


22 posted on 07/12/2022 4:24:43 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: McGruff
White House accuses Iran of gifting 'several hundred' drones to Russia

The word is "GIVING"!

23 posted on 07/12/2022 4:25:44 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: McGruff

I wonder if Biden is still pursuing Obama’s Iran nuke deal?


24 posted on 07/12/2022 4:25:52 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: All

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This is how your Senators and Congress get Rich.

Read the names, note the Party (two Dems from Massachusetts alone).

Hunter’s laptop shows large payments from these LLCs.

David Leiter, a former Senate chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, signed on to work as a lobbyist for Burisma on May 20, 2014, about a week after Hunter Biden announced he was joining the company, according to lobbying disclosures filed this month.
Leiter’s involvement in the firm rounds out a power-packed team of politically-connected Americans that also includes a second new board member, Devon Archer, a Democratic bundler and former adviser to John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Both Archer and Hunter Biden have worked as business partners with Kerry’s son-in-law, Christopher Heinz, the founding partner of Rosemont Capital, a private-equity company.

But Burisma is contacting officials in Washington through Leiter’s lobbying firm, ML Strategies. “ML Strategies is working with Burisma to educate U.S. officials about the company and its role in creating a stable and secure energy future for Ukraine.

Some Democratic senators, meanwhile, have been working to secure more U.S. funding, either directly or through entities like the Export-Import Bank, to improve Ukraine’s domestic energy production potential. On June 27, Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, wrote President Obama a letter with three other Democratic senators calling for increased aid. “We should leverage the full resources and expertise of the U.S. government to assist Ukraine in improving its energy efficiency, increasing its domestic production, and reforming its energy markets,” wrote Markey, who has also proposed legislation with about $40 million in additional aide for Ukranian energy development.

Markey’s letter was trumpeted by Burisma Holdings as a commendable move towards securing the future security of Ukraine. “Burisma Holdings today applauded the range of U.S. legislative support for development of Ukraine’s broad and untapped resources and an increase in transparency and good governance,” the company said in a statement on the day the letter was released.

An aide in Markey’s office told TIME that Leiter, Biden and Archer were not part of discussions that led to the drafting of the letter or the legislation. Staff for the other senators who signed the letter, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Christopher Murphy of Connecticut, also said they did not have contact with Leiter, who could not be reached for comment.

But Hunter Biden’s new job, along with the association with Burisma of other politically-connected businessmen, has raised concerns among some Ukraine watchers.

Time 2014

The $40 Million brought the total Aid Package up to a Billion

The Final Legislation included the following language for Hunter:

“Directs the Secretary to work with Ukrainian officials to increase energy security by helping Ukraine reduce its dependence on natural gas imported from the Russian Federation. Authorizes FY2016-FY2018 appropriations for such activities.”

‘Natural Gas’ - tailored to Burisma


25 posted on 07/12/2022 4:25:58 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: McGruff

... and they double pinky promise not to nuke Israel .... no really ... that whole “hostage crisis” thing was just a Islamic fraternity pledge week prank.


26 posted on 07/12/2022 4:26:55 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING )
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To: DesertRhino

Well they do not believe in sovereignty and borders.. just Biden’s “fossil” free globalism.


27 posted on 07/12/2022 4:29:39 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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Might be a short-lived game changer.

28 posted on 07/12/2022 4:34:15 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

And?


29 posted on 07/12/2022 4:37:55 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: McGruff

Thanks to the Kenyan POS and the chicom butt-boy from DE, Iran has lots of money to be generous with...


30 posted on 07/12/2022 4:39:09 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: SaveFerris
Whatever is currently happening seems the Iran-Russia alliance will continue all the way to Ezekiel 38.

Yes, it probably will. I heard that Erdogan, Putin and Iran are having a meeting of the minds soon. That’s strange. I thought Turkey was supplying weapons to Ukraine. 🤗

31 posted on 07/12/2022 4:39:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Mark17

“Aren’t the Ruskies capable of building these things themselves? “

It turns out that “Russian technology” is crammed full of Western Integrated Circuits. So, as it turns out, is “Iranian technology.” It would be easy enough to equip Ukraine with some of the easily available commercial drone killers used at US airports. Also, it’s fairly easy to track the radio signals controlling the drone and I’m assuming Ukraine would fire off an artillery round at it.


32 posted on 07/12/2022 4:42:15 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: ConservativeMind

Obama also gave them the drone to copy.


33 posted on 07/12/2022 4:53:43 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: fhayek

Joe Biden


34 posted on 07/12/2022 5:10:58 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: McGruff

So? Liberals in gov are trying give Iran the bomb.


35 posted on 07/12/2022 5:27:36 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: McGruff

Gross hypocrisy.


36 posted on 07/12/2022 5:33:01 PM PDT by libertylover (Democrats are as determined to kill innocent people as the Nazis.)
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To: McGruff

But it’s ok for the US to fully fund a proxy war against Russia to the tune of $60 billion and counting?


37 posted on 07/12/2022 5:40:31 PM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Tellurian
"... and they are probably American made munitions that Iran bought from Afghanistan."

Great point.

38 posted on 07/12/2022 5:54:03 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: McGruff

What’s going on?
It was always Russia supplying guns to Iran!
Russians must be quite desperate!


39 posted on 07/12/2022 7:16:54 PM PDT by AZJeep
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