Posted on 06/01/2016 10:13:53 PM PDT by Nachum
Iran, the nation that has built a well-deserved reputation as the world’s premier state-sponsor of terrorism has a new lobbyist and he is none other than U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Since the Obama administration inked the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in January, Kerry has been busying himself with ensuring that European banks start doing business with the Iranians. Yes, you read that correctly. Not only has the United States and its European allies agreed to lift sanctions against the Islamic Republic, the administration is now encouraging the private banking sector to do the same. It appears however, that their intense lobbying efforts are being received with a healthy dose of skepticism.
HSBC’s chief legal officer, Stuart Levey confirmed that Kerry had requested that HSBC start opening its banking doors to the Iranians and transact business with them. Levey criticized Kerry’s misguided initiative noting that the U.S. still maintains other non-nuclear related sanctions against the Islamic Republic and that doing business with Iran runs the risk of running afoul of those sanctions. HSBC has had prior negative experience with the U.S. Treasury and Justice departments. In 2012, the bank was forced to fork over $1.9 billion to U.S. authorities to settle allegations involving money laundering for Mexican drug barons.
Levey also noted that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls large swaths of the Iranian economy, has been slapped with sanctions by both the U.S. and Europe because of the central role it plays in illicit regional and international activities. Doing business with Iran will almost certainly result in facilitating IRGC operations. Adding to the uncertainty, Iran has over the years developed a penchant for hiding money, engaging in shady deals and money laundering thus making it difficult, if not impossible for banking institutions to engage the
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Once a traitor , ,,,
This connects some dots as to where might be those State Dept. billions. Money laundering, the article asserts, is one of the enterprises run by the Iranian government.
All of this dumbocrap malfeasance is going into Trumps “little book of horrors,” which debuts sometime next fall..
Only a jug-eared lying muslim Marxist crapweasel would make a traitor like Tehran John the sec. state.
... always a traitor ... GMTA ...
We’ll never know the money that changed hands in all this.
Kerry sold himself to our enemies before and so did “O”...THEY know how to use their position to stuff their pockets and that’s what it’s about.
IS Kerry's daughter ready for a Baka?
How soon until this traitor is giving Iran nukes? Why go half way?
obama and Kerry and before him Hillary have already seen to it that Iran gets nuclear bombs and the ICBM’s to deliver them to, to bomb Iran’s “great satan” (USA)
Obama has used the US military to defend Iran while Iran builds its nukes
Obama even threatened war against anybody who tries to stop Iran from building up its nuclear bomb arsenal
Obama also “leaked” secret defense plans of allied nations when they were preparing to take some action to try to stop the Iranian nukes
and Obama also saw to it, by lying to Congres and the American people, that Iran gets $150 BILLION dollars , which will help Iran build more nuclear bombs, more ICBM missiles, and will help Iran send more missiles, bombs, and other weapons to its string of terrrorist murder gangs like Hexbellah and in Yemen and Saudi and Somalia, etc
Your facts are correct...
That said, it makes no sense for the United States to do this with a nation we’re on a war path with... It would be like assisting Germans after WWI - knowing everyone was standing around reloading... especially Germany...
Any ideas on what could be behind these choices?
Does anybody know why we have not heard anything from Kerry’s wife ..????
I know she was going through the change, because she was talking about it all over the place; and her remedy was raisins soaked in GIN.
Kerry’s wife is a white raisin drunk ...
Well, at least she’s staying out of the public’s eye.
She was such a distasteful person, nobody cares she’s drinking herself to death. Sad.
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