Posted on 10/09/2023 7:52:51 PM PDT by NetAddicted
We've honestly lost count of the number of Leftists, Democrats, and actual Biden toadies trying to pretend the $6 billion in question had nothing to do with the attacks on Israel. It's as if talking points went out near and FAR to cover this administration's backside.
There's just one problem with this ... most people understand what the word 'fungible' means.
Oh, and then there's this thread as well:
🧵I'm sorry Jen but you are simply unfamiliar with Iranian budgeting practices and how the Iranian regime and Hamas make decisions.
1. Iran normally has to allocate its limited foreign exchange reserves for food/medicine months in advance to facilitate trade flows. Not anymore. https://t.co/w2X0wNNANs
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
Yeah. Keep going.
2. Iran can now devote $6 billion of its unrestricted funds toward financial, operational, and logistical support for terror proxies including Hamas.
And it will do so through the Central Bank of Iran, which received a sanctions waiver last month as part of the hostage deal. pic.twitter.com/Vq0EsDbOns
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
3. According to Iranian lawmakers, they planned to use the $6 billion to backfill internal accounting debts to the Central Bank of Iran, which is sanctioned by the U.S. for their support of Iranian terrorism and support for Hamas.https://t.co/W3UGNfASLP
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
4. According to US Treasury sanctions across administrations, Hamas receives tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars directly from Iran through the IRGC.
The $6 billion payment freed up huge reserves to ensure that Iran could continue this support.https://t.co/DasCtX6FCf pic.twitter.com/uvB0OjFOEf
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
5. Iranian and Hamas decisions about whether to embark on a war depend on their perceptions of whether they can sustain such operations.
Between the $6 billion infuse to cover future domestic needs, and the tens of billions of dollars in extra oil income, the answer was easy. pic.twitter.com/Uew4HYAaSU
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
The answer was easy.
6. Secondly, as I've written about repeatedly, the notion this $6 billion will even go for the humanitarian needs of the Iranian people is contradicted by a stream of evidence.
Ex. In 2019, 19 Iranian trucks of medicine were confiscated as they were heading for black markets. pic.twitter.com/zCpde2ByQy
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
Biden knows this - well, he used to before he became a walking, talking pudding pop.
Democrats know this.
We get it, they don't want to admit they're funding war and terrorism but ...
In fact, in 2020, Iran's Health Minister complained that there was “a highly complicated network” within the government responsible for systemic corruption and theft of medicine and medical goods.
They may buy medicine, but it'll go to the IRGC and Hamas.https://t.co/IeYqy2pxyd
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
Color us shocked.
Oh, wait. No.
7. Congressional sources tell me the administration cannot answer basic questions about the $6 billion payment, such as whether there is any ability for end-use monitoring of the food/medicine allegedly bought.
Moreover, Iran has a long banking history of fraudulent invoicing.
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
8. As just one example, read this DOJ indictment against Halbank, a Turkish bank that facilitated "humanitarian" trade with Iran.
So please, don't take the administration's claims at face value. They are talking points without a grounding in truth.https://t.co/OqTzPMTJ8T pic.twitter.com/8QBSDznhFq
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
Don't worry, we don't take any of this administration's claims at face value. We never have.
In the words of Iran's President Raisi: “Humanitarian means whatever the Iranian people needs, so this money will be budgeted for those needs.”
Iran is on the 34-nation Financial Action Task Force's blacklist for lack of financial transparency.https://t.co/lCfVQMIWhE
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
Duh.
In 2020, one senior Iranian leader confirmed they didn't want to even get off the blacklist, saying: "All [of Iran's] transactions and financial transfers are being carried out in a hidden manner..." https://t.co/F1vOey3w8v
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
... carried out in a hidden manner.
FFS.
The reality is Iran knew it was going to get this $6 billion in September months ago - it added enormous stability to their currency markets and ensured they had fiscal space.
Iran trains, equips, and directs Hamas activities. The $6B was a green light to approve this operation.
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) October 7, 2023
Winner winner chicken dinner.
But hey, nice try, Team Biden.
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The big guy gets his cut. He doesn’t care who is killed
Someone explain to Andrea Mitchell. Today she was complaining not about the tragedy but how the money given to Iran was more Trump disinformation that must be discredited.
Andrea Mitchell: Do you understand the concept of cash advances? Iran pays for Hamas instead of their internal needs first and waits for the $6 billion that is released to pay for their internal needs later. If Iran didn’t have the $6 billion coming in, Iran wouldn’t have the option to pay the terrorists.
There is a straight line to connect Biden giving Iran $6 billion and the Hamas offensive.
On the other side, they are pulling a six degrees of Kevin Bacon to blame Trump.
Are you kidding? They’re trying to blame Trump? I haven’t heard that one yet.
The spin is Trump shared with Russia how to defeat Iron Dome, who shared with Iran who shared with Hamas. No proof of this, of course, but its from the same people saying Trump disclosed all our submarine secrets.
Srsly? Worked in publishing for 40 years. Never heard it in ordinary American news discourse before about two years ago. Had it explained to me once by a high government official. Forgot the meaning almost immediately. Just doesn't pass any "intuitive comprehensibility" tests.
Lyin’ Biden. FJB.
Yes, I’ve looked it up 10 times, and I still couldn’t give you its definition. I presume since I make sense of fungible in sentence, I immediately flush it from immediate memory. Done that since I was a kid: relearn word definitions repeatedly while reading. Back when I had to go search for the word in my mom’s Oxford Dictionary.
Doesn’t matter. You’re forgetting the Liberal Rules of Truth:
1. Truth is whatever serves the Party.
2. If you repeat something often enough, it becomes true.
3. If the facts contradict the narrative, the facts lie.
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