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Iran may have received $33.6 BILLION in secret payments(tr)
https://www.jihadwatch.org ^ | 09/09/2016 | Christine Williams

Posted on 09/09/2016 3:05:20 PM PDT by heterosupremacist

It’s striking that Barack Obama, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military, is doing backroom deals with Iran, which the U.S. State Department has listed as the top state sponsor of terrorism in the world. It is now reported that:

“Iran may have received an additional $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments facilitated by the Obama administration between 2014 and 2016, according to testimony provided before Congress by an expert on last summer’s nuclear agreement with Iran.”

A former Pentagon official and specialist on rogue regimes, Michael Rubin, stated that payments of this nature are “highly irregular” and they “bolstered the strength of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and augmented its ability to finance and conduct terrorism.”

This secret deal announcement also comes at a time of increasing provocation by Iran against American vessels in the Gulf. Seven Iranian Islamic Republican Guard Corps Navy attack craft charged at a U.S. coastal patrol ship. The patrol shift swerved to avoid a crash. Such harassment on the seas by Iran was not the first time:

“The incident is the latest in a series of interactions the Navy has called “dangerous and unprofessional” in a year that has seen more run-ins between U.S. and Iranian ships than in recent memory.”

America continues to be humiliated and beaten down by Islamic supremacist bullies under a highly questionable administration that is leading America into steep decline, while citizens appear to be collectively incapacitated by fears of charges of “Islamophobia” and a simple disbelief that any of this could really be happening.

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Iran may have received an additional $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments facilitated by the Obama administration between 2014 and 2016, according to testimony provided before Congress by an expert on last summer’s nuclear agreement with Iran.

Between January 2014 and July 2015, when the Obama administration was hammering out the final details of the nuclear accord, Iran was paid $700 million every month from funds that had previously been frozen by U.S. sanctions.

A total of $11.9 billion was ultimately paid to Iran, but the details surrounding these payments remain shrouded in mystery, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

In total, “Iran may have received as much as $33.6 billion in cash or in gold and other precious metals,” Dubowitz disclosed.

New questions about these payments are emerging following confirmation from top Obama administration officials on Thursday that it was forced to pay Iran $1.7 billion in cash prior to the release of several U.S. hostages earlier this year. The administration insisted that cash had to be used for this payment.

Top administration officials were adamant that the cash payments were the best way to ensure that Iran got immediate access to this money due to its ongoing difficulty accessing international funds still sanctioned by the West.

Lawmakers and others are now pressing the administration to disclose how a slew of other payments to Iran were made in the years leading up to the final nuclear accord……

Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and expert on rogue regimes, said that cash payments of this nature are “highly irregular.”

“There’s no reason it needed to be paid now. After all, successive administrations, both Democratic and Republican, have delayed payments so as to avoid funding Iranian terrorism,” Rubin said. “Likewise, if the United States freezes accounts linked to al Qaeda or Hamas, releasing it and saying, ‘It’s their money anyway,’ would not be a tenable explanation. Cash payments are highly irregular.”

The Iranians have been clear that they “perceived the payment to be a ransom” despite the administration’s protestations, Rubin explained.

“Not only has the delivery of the millions of dollars been perceived as a ransom, provided as an incentive to seize more hostages …. but because the money was delivered in cash the payment bolstered the strength of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and augmented its ability to finance and conduct terrorism,” he said.

1 posted on 09/09/2016 3:05:20 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
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Full Title :

Iran may have received $33.6 BILLION in secret payments facilitated by Obama administration


2 posted on 09/09/2016 3:05:45 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
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To: heterosupremacist

But all the really smart people have said the Obama administration is remarkably scandal-free.


3 posted on 09/09/2016 3:10:36 PM PDT by Oratam
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That is making me absolutely crazy. I cannot believe it.

I just can’t. I cannot even comprehend it, if true. 33 billion dollars? 33 billion?

This makes me sick to my stomach.


4 posted on 09/09/2016 3:11:56 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: heterosupremacist

No big deal! Just add it to the national debt!!
Let the youngsters and future generations worry about it. /S


5 posted on 09/09/2016 3:12:38 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: heterosupremacist

Who is authorizing this rip off?

where is this money coming from?

where are they shipping it from?

who’s shipping it?

where is it going?

how much is getting lost in transit?

how much is going to line obammy’s retirement nest?


6 posted on 09/09/2016 3:13:11 PM PDT by thinden
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To: heterosupremacist

Barak Hussein is a MOSLEM dealing with other MOSLEMS to undercut and perhaps destroy the chief impediment to MOSLEM domination of the western world.


7 posted on 09/09/2016 3:17:17 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: heterosupremacist

It appears that the U.S. State Department is the top state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Can we sanction them?


8 posted on 09/09/2016 3:19:38 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: arthurus

TAQIYYA TAQIYYA TAQIYYA TAQIYYA Barack is quite adept at this tradition.


9 posted on 09/09/2016 3:21:40 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: heterosupremacist

And we work like slaves to fund these payments involuntarily. How I loathe this president and the former Secretary of State.


10 posted on 09/09/2016 3:21:55 PM PDT by Rollee
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To: heterosupremacist

Of course Obama did. He’s handled by Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian operative.


11 posted on 09/09/2016 3:22:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Every word the "News Media" prints these days are a lie, including "and" and "the".)
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Why has Congress not Impeached him? He is funding the Iranian Republican Guard that is overseeing the massing of Syrian and Iranian forces on the Israeli border. We may be funding an attack on Israel. And why did we return this money. It has already been determined in International court the U.S did not need to return that money. Second, the USSC ruled that $2 Billion in held money could be used to pay victims of Iranian terrorism. That is in addition to another $53 Billion in Federal Court judgments against Iran. Obummer is a flat out traitor. He would rather give that money to Iran than U.S. Citizens that are victims of Iranian terrorism. F’ing POS.
12 posted on 09/09/2016 3:25:03 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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Why isn’t this front page on every paper and screaming across every new banner?!

Our guys are overseas being slaughtered by Iranian IEDs when our commander in chief is paying them? I can’t even begin to to say what I want. Everyone involved should be impeached and imprisoned.


13 posted on 09/09/2016 3:27:50 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: rlmorel; vette6387; HarleyLady27; Liz

Meanwhile, veterans are dying due to lack of care.


14 posted on 09/09/2016 3:28:01 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: heterosupremacist

I hope our next president has the fortitude to look into the $33billion payoff to Iran and have people arrested and charged with treason.


15 posted on 09/09/2016 3:28:22 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: cpdiii
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." |

Even before the birth of Christ, Cicero knew of men such as Obama.

16 posted on 09/09/2016 3:28:45 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: heterosupremacist

This is too much for the mind of most people. They cannot accept it. They cannot believe that they man who told them he was a committed Christian is a committed muzzy who hates this country and gave $100 of each person’s money to a regime that sponsors terrorism and hates us.
Obviously the media will not cover this. No one is going to demand that the traitor resign. He knows it. He got away with it.


17 posted on 09/09/2016 3:33:24 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: heterosupremacist

$33B + $400M + $1.3B = $34.7B
300 million Americans
Spread over every person in the country is $116 per person.

The jerk in charge needs to go to prison.


18 posted on 09/09/2016 3:34:01 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: MPJackal

Why has Congress not Impeached him?
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You and tens of millions of others have asked variations on this question for decades, but never more than in the last 7 years... This has brought us Trump.


19 posted on 09/09/2016 3:36:42 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: heterosupremacist

The media are burying it. Do a google search for “iran 33.6 billion” and you’ll see they are ignoring it.


20 posted on 09/09/2016 3:36:54 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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