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Posted on 07/23/2024 6:05:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Texas senator investigating lapse in U.S. sanctions enabling Tehran’s proxies to fund war on Israel.
The suicide drones used by Iran’s Houthi militants to conduct a deadly and unprecedented attack on Tel Aviv last week were constructed primarily with American components, highlighting severe gaps in U.S. sanctions on Tehran, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas).
Yemen’s Houthi militants, who are funded and directed by Iran, significantly escalated their attacks on Israel last week when they launched a long-range drone strike on Israel’s second largest city, killing one person and wounding several others. The advanced military equipment was supplied by Iran, constructed using American parts, and funded by more than $100 billion in sanctions relief that has been granted to the hardline regime during President Joe Biden’s tenure in office, Cruz said in an investigatory letter sent to the White House on Monday.
"The construction of the drones is enabled by the regime’s access to American components, and indeed the drones are built almost entirely from components produced by U.S. companies," Cruz wrote before asking White House officials to immediately brief Congress on the matter.
"Military production of the drones is financed by funds available to the Iranian regime, including roughly 100 billion dollars that the Biden administration has allowed to flow to the Ayatollah."
The letter comes just days after the Biden administration renewed a sanctions waiver that unlocks upwards of $10 billion for Iran via cash payment from Iraq. These funds, Cruz and other Republicans say, are funding Iran’s production of deadly drones, which have been exported to terror groups across the region, as well as Russia for use in its war on Ukraine. Iran has been accessing key American electronic components for years, allowing it to build up a fleet of advanced drones that comprise about 80 percent of its total arsenal, according to congressional sources briefed on the issue.
"These drones are made almost entirely of American components, including ones cannibalized from other machines or transferred through third or fourth-party distributors using convoluted routes to move tiny electronics," Cruz said. "U.S. export and trade restrictions are aimed in part to prevent the acquisition of such components by rogue regimes such as Iran; their failure suggests either a lack of will or ability by the Biden administration.".....
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Who would have ever guessed. Next will be news of their nuclear program being fully operational.
They must mean Chinese components also used by American companies because even American components are made in China nowadays.
Two sides of the fence regime in DC.
These Iranian drones are the ones Putin has funded to use against Ukraine.
Hoping Israel has the courage that we don’t. The drone factories need to become craters.
Using American parts? Some proof? Sounds more like it is possible they could be using leftover parts left to the Taliban.
We have also released billions to Iran during the current regime. They probably didn’t need Putin’s money.
Ukes have been selling US weapons on the black market too. Who really knows?
Thank you much Odumbo, and his quisling pedoJoe!
There are billions of cell phones with powerful chips available for military application.
And American money thanks to Biden and Obama
Never forget the American drone “shotdown” in Iran under Obunghole. It’s no coincidence. I am shocked drones have not been used by terrorists in America yet. We will wake up one day with Iran joining the nuke club.
Cruz-He’s up this year. Sounding like MTG. Stirring the pot.
Thanks Obama.
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