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GOP Moves To Block Cash to Iran Through Defense Authorization Bill
FreeBeacon ^ |  September 23, 2021 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 09/26/2021 3:10:15 PM PDT by Conservat1

NATIONAL SECURITY

GOP Moves To Block Cash to Iran Through Defense Authorization Bill 

Provisions would prevent sanctions relief and expose Iran's malign activities

The sprawling annual defense bill includes several provisions that would block the Biden administration from providing Iran with cash and would require the administration to come clean about any economic sanctions relief it provides to the Islamic Republic.

The Republican Study Committee (RSC), the largest GOP caucus in Congress, is codifying its anti-Iran platform in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which funds U.S. defense efforts and is expected to pass through the House this week

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KEYWORDS: egypt; hezbollah; iran; iraq; islamicrepublic; israel; johnkerry; kenyanbornmuzzie; lebanon; lurch; massachusetts; mullahloversonfr; russia; shiitemilitias; syria; waronterror; yemen
Question, is (apologetic for genocidal jihadists) AOC still weeping?
AOC Weeps Because Israelis Won’t Be Slaughtered

1 posted on 09/26/2021 3:10:15 PM PDT by Conservat1
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To: Conservat1

Our genocidal jihadis come from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

I believe the death toll from Iranian jihadis in the US and against overseas American assets is zero.

What’s the beef the GOP, never afraid to be wrong, has with the Persians?


2 posted on 09/26/2021 3:15:32 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Conservat1

Why do the first, second and fourth sentences lack punctuation?

Why does the third sentence have punctuation while the others do not?

Was this written by an illiterate?
Do you trust people who cannot write proper English?


3 posted on 09/26/2021 3:18:16 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Conservat1

Nobody chanting death to Americans in iran.


4 posted on 09/26/2021 3:19:50 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. God’s speed FRiends)
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To: no-to-illegals

Right.


5 posted on 09/26/2021 3:31:00 PM PDT by Conservat1
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To: Jim Noble

Iran's Shiite militias in Iraq's IEDs against our soldiers?

6 posted on 09/26/2021 3:32:59 PM PDT by Conservat1
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To: All

When do we just stop giving money to foreign countries all together?


7 posted on 09/26/2021 3:36:40 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Conservat1

You mean Republicans are actually going to do something besides blabbering.


8 posted on 09/26/2021 3:40:04 PM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: notaliberal

Hopefully so.


9 posted on 09/26/2021 3:49:39 PM PDT by Conservat1
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To: Conservat1

Has that lying bucket of goat dandruff tried to give money to the mullas like his boss did?
If he hasn’t, he will.


10 posted on 09/26/2021 4:03:39 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Dethrone the ruling elite. Redistribute their wealth. Take away their power. Annul their privileges.)
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To: Jim Noble

Iran and its Revolutionary Guard were responsible for thousands of deaths in Iraq. Both US military and Iraqi civilians.

They were the ones supplying rockets, mortars, bomb making material and teaching how to make IEDs and EFPs.

Sulemani was killed on Iraqi soil at a time when there was increasing violence toward the few American assets left in Iraq and many in the Iraqi government were vocal about expelling everything American from the country.


11 posted on 09/26/2021 6:51:14 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: notaliberal

They’re doing this right after agreeing to let military courts Red Flag GIs without due process. 135 of them. What gems.


12 posted on 09/26/2021 6:53:05 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Conservat1

Too bad a large number of GOP also voted FOR the NDAA that included expanding the Draft to America’s daughters. Looking at you, Dan Crenshaw.


13 posted on 09/26/2021 7:23:11 PM PDT by Liberty Tree Surgeon
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To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
that included expanding the Draft to America’s daughters

One: there is no draft.

Two: If "America's daughters" are allowed in combat arms (which is an abomination), what, exactly, is the argument that they shouldn't be drafted?

This is the GOP in a nutshell: Afraid to argue the fundamentals: No women in combat arms, hide behind "don't DRAFT women" when they know perfectly well there is no draft.

14 posted on 09/26/2021 8:08:53 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Jim Noble

As an OIF/OEF vet, with extensive knowledge of Iranian activity on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen, we have lost several hundred (dead), and have several hundred injured (mutilated) by Iranian produced and Iranian Shia network planted IED’s, and even VBID’s.

But locals in several countries have lost many more than we have, due to the same Iranian activity.

I once was involved in a 1400+ Iranian planted “daisy chain” mass human targeted casualty hit in Baghdad. The first to detonate was an Iraqi girls school bus full of young girls. This was the “hook” to get us to respond, which we did. Then he Iranian underground planted daisy-chain went off. In this scenario, both the Iraqi’s and the US and coalition servicemembers were hit.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2015/07/14/iran-linked-to-deaths-of-500-u-s-troops-in-iraq-afghanistan/

https://jcpa.org/killing-americans-allies-irans-war/

Some of these attacks involved high volumes of chlorine gas.

https://worldview.stratfor.com/weekly/imminent-spread-efps

It gets worse.

From my position, while on multiple missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan, we were occasionally sent links directly by the Iranians, with raw video footage of our guys being blown up (with their narration going on ml mostly from Iranian sites, with several instances of “shaped charge experimentation” being carried out.

A couple of times, our covert Iraqi cell was given what turned out to be LIVE links (which were immediately passed to us), without enough time to avoid the attacks.

One of the most shocking and destructive shaped charge experiments we were EVER sent footage of, was of a full US MRAP, which was totally destroyed by an advanced Russian experimental shaped charge, which killed everyone on board, vaporizing and sucking them through their body armor, and out several holes which were no bigger than 2.5”inches in diameter. That footage was less than a day old when it arrived at the scif, and included Russian engineers detailing in Russian language, the set up, targeting, and detonation narration. From their Russian location in Iran, they were exuberant and cheering in defeating the MRAP armor.

Won’t get into it here, but there is also Hezbollah. Numerous attacks on US targets, across both CENTCOM and AFRICOM ME AOR’s.

We have now lost three UAV’s ) ok ne very expensive Global Hawk), which were shot down by the old, yet very high speed/high altitude SA6’s and SA7’s, which had been recently retrofitted with Russian 4th and 5th gen target acquisition.

Both Russia and China have for several years now, been supplying Huthi rebels in Yemen with weapons and engineering support against SA. One of ISR airbreathers was shot down just off the Yemeni coast in the Southern Red Sea, by an 5TH gen updated Russian manned SA7 missile. The Global Hawk was brought down over the Persian Gulf, from near 60 thousand feet, with another Russian 5th gen SA7, but that was Iranian manned.

Its off subject a bit, but Israel had a F-16 brought down by a Russian manned S-300 near the Syrian/Istaeli border a few years ago, on it’s way back from hitting one of several significant Russian engineered CW UFAC storage facilities just North of the Jordanian border in Syria, housing several thousand drums of CW from Al Muthana deep UFAC CW storage facility West/Northwest of Balad, Iraq.

The ME is basically the beginning of a kinetic WWIII on a likely short fuse.

In the larger strategic picture, Russia and China (which has possession of some of the largest energy fields in the ME), cannot allow the UAE/SA/Israel energy lines to be ported in Israel, and pumped to Greece and Southern Italy. Yemen, Libya, Ethiopia, and the greater Shia Crescent are key to stopping the US/Trump backed energy lines to Italy and the EU.

Putin has threatened another “Syrian style” mass refugee wave into Southern EU (from Tripoli), if the projects continue.

Big stakes -

But yes, Iran has nailed US targets many dozens of times.


15 posted on 09/26/2021 8:35:03 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Jim Noble; All

As an OIF/OEF vet, with extensive knowledge of Iranian activity on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen, and HOA, we have lost several hundred (dead), and have several hundred injured (mutilated) by Iranian produced and Iranian Shia network planted IED’s, and even VBID’s.

But locals in several countries have lost many more than we have, due to the same Iranian activity.

I once was involved in response to a 1400+ Iranian planted “daisy chain” mass human targeted casualty hit in Baghdad. The first to detonate was an Iraqi girls school bus full of young girls. This was the “hook” to get us to respond, which we did. Then the Iranian MOIS/VAJA underground planted daisy-chain went off. In this scenario, both the Iraqi’s and US and coalition servicemembers were hit.

Iranian EFP/IED problem -

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2015/07/14/iran-linked-to-deaths-of-500-u-s-troops-in-iraq-afghanistan/

https://jcpa.org/killing-americans-allies-irans-war/

Some of these attacks involved high volumes of chlorine gas.

https://worldview.stratfor.com/weekly/imminent-spread-efps

It gets worse.

From my position, while on multiple missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan, we were occasionally sent links directly by the Iranians, with raw video footage of our guys being blown up (with their narration going on mostly from Iranian sites, with several instances of “shaped charge experimentation” being carried out.

A couple of times, our covert Iraqi cell was given what turned out to be LIVE links (which were immediately passed to us), without enough time to avoid the attacks.

One of the most shocking and destructive shaped charge experiments we were EVER sent footage of, was of a full US MRAP, which was totally destroyed by an advanced Russian experimental shaped charge, which killed everyone on board, vaporizing and sucking our guys through their body armor, and out several holes which were no bigger than 2.5”inches in diameter. That footage was less than a day old when it arrived, and included GRU (with MOIS) Russian engineers detailing in Russian language, the set up, targeting, and detonation narration. From their Russian location in Iran, they were exuberant and cheering in defeating the MRAP armor.

Won’t get into it here, but there is also Hezbollah. Numerous attacks on US targets, across both CENTCOM and AFRICOM ME AOR’s. Apart from Iraq and Afghanistan, over time, my guys have been hit in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Yemen, involving Iranian Hezbollah and associated. I know of a team near the Columbia/Venezuelan boarder who have been under direct attack on the ground from Chinese and Russian backed IRGC as well.

We have now lost three UAV’s ) ok ne very expensive Global Hawk), which were shot down by the old, yet very high speed/high altitude SA6’s and SA7’s, which had been recently retrofitted with Russian 4th and 5th gen target acquisition.

Both Russia and China have for several years now, been supplying Huthi rebels in Yemen with weapons and engineering support against SA. One of ISR airbreathers was shot down just off the Yemeni coast in the Southern Red Sea, by an 5TH gen updated Russian manned SA7 missile. The Global Hawk was brought down over the Persian Gulf, from near 60 thousand feet, with another Russian 5th gen SA7, but that was Iranian manned.

Its off subject a bit, but Israel had a F-16 brought down by a Russian manned S-300 near the Syrian/Istaeli border a few years ago, on it’s way back from hitting one of several significant Russian engineered CW UFAC storage facilities just North of the Jordanian border in Syria, housing several thousand drums of CW from Al Muthana deep UFAC CW storage facility West/Northwest of Balad, Iraq.

The ME is basically the beginning of a kinetic WWIII on a likely short fuse.

In the larger strategic picture, Russia and China (which has possession of some of the largest energy fields in the ME), cannot allow the UAE/SA/Israel energy lines to be ported in Israel, and pumped to Greece and Southern Italy. Yemen, Libya, Ethiopia, and the greater Shia Crescent are key to stopping the US/Trump backed energy lines to Italy and the EU.

Putin has threatened another “Syrian style” mass refugee wave into Southern EU (from Tripoli), if the projects continue.

Big stakes -

But yes, Iran has nailed US targets many dozens of times.


16 posted on 09/26/2021 8:59:16 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Jim Noble

Did I mention the NDAA also expands the use of the Draft beyond just combat reinforcements to now include more bodies for “national emergencies”? Which in Democrat hands can include climate change, the lack of vaccination participation, and the absence of a national drag queen story hour...

And there will be...


17 posted on 09/27/2021 6:50:57 AM PDT by Liberty Tree Surgeon
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To: Liberty Tree Surgeon

You guys who post about this keep referring to “the draft”.

I was 18 years old in May 1968. I am very aware of “the draft” and how it worked.

In the current year, and in fact for the past 46 years, THERE IS NO DRAFT. For there to be a draft, legislation to create it would be required.

“Registering for the draft” is registering for nothing, except to keep some bureaucrats employed doing little to nothing. The probability that any future Congress would create a draft is approximately zero, and if they ever did, the first thing they would do is create Category IV-W for any woman who didn’t FEEL like being drafted.


18 posted on 09/27/2021 7:00:26 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Jim Noble

Glad you admit that your understanding of the Draft is over 50 years out of date. What would THIS Congress due with the power to draft ALL young people 18-25 years of age for what they call a “national emergency”?

Look up “Normalcy Bias” if your answer to the question above is, “ain’t gonna happen” or some derivative thereof.


19 posted on 09/27/2021 10:18:38 AM PDT by Liberty Tree Surgeon
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To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
Glad you admit that your understanding of the Draft is over 50 years out of date

One thing about the draft 50 years ago is that it was real.

20 posted on 09/27/2021 11:55:40 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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