Posted on 07/06/2023 6:02:29 PM PDT by CFW
The Justice Department today announced the filing of a forfeiture complaint against over 9,000 rifles, 284 machine guns, approximately 194 rocket launchers, over 70 anti-tank guided missiles and over 700,000 rounds of ammunition that the U.S. Navy seized in transit from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to militant groups in Yemen.
“The government of Iran, through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, remains bent on smuggling weapons of war to militant groups in violation of U.S. sanctions and international law,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “As this seizure demonstrates, the Department of Justice will work in lockstep with our U.S. Government partners to deny the Iranian regime the means to undermine our nation’s interest and threaten the security of our people.”
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office has again taken action to prevent Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from spreading violence and bloodshed across the world and threatening the security of our nation and allies,” said U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia. “As proven before, where we have jurisdiction, this office will use all the tools available in our power to prevent criminals and terrorists from threatening global stability.”
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Seriously though, that's quite a bit of firepower and more investigations needs to be done as to how, who, what, and where these firearms shipments are being organized.
I’m waiting for DEA to seize the White House, what with all the drug trafficking they have going on in there.
The weapons will undoubtedly be rerouted to Ukraine. Ukraine can then sell them to the rebels in Yemen with 10% of the profits going to the “Big Guy.”
I want one. And maybe 5 mags. And 1000 rounds. Ok, maybe 10000 rounds!
Or the FBI for the chinese spying/influence peddling going on there.
“The weapons will undoubtedly be rerouted to Ukraine. Ukraine can then sell them to the rebels in Yemen with 10% of the profits going to the “Big Guy.””
I’m sure that, or some variation, is the plan. Those weapons will probably be seized and resold multiple times with the “Big Guy” getting a cut on each transaction.
Life was so much simpler before inflation.
100 Rifles used to mean something.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063970/
Was Kabul the point of origin?
The IRS?
More likely the FN plant in SC.
Getting very tired of the continued subversive activities undermining our Republic. I for one suggest DEFUNDING this communist juggernaut. Contact me and I will direct you to a government agency to assist you! (not the Bee)
With a straight face, I would imagine...
Give them to the Kurds in Iraq. Better yet Iran. Heh heh. Kurdistan is still an ideal.
If you see the DOJ Thugs sporting AK-47s I bet I can guess where they got them.
I wonder how many DOJ, FBI, BLM, and ANTIFA Lone Wolves will be getting these weapons?
That China-brokered “rapprochement” between Iran and Saudi Arabia sure has been valuable to the Saudi’s! /Sarc Off
“I wonder how many DOJ, FBI, BLM, and ANTIFA Lone Wolves will be getting these weapons?”
That’s a good question. The fact that many gang members are now found to have automatic weapons shows that governmental agencies are complicit in those weapons being provided to “bad actors” in this country. Those weapons are carefully tracked in our nation, and I suspect in most other nations as well. No firearm shipment leaves anywhere without our CIA and other alphabet agencies knowing exactly when and where they were produced, with what money, and their destination.
Kurdistan will NEVER occur with Turkey in NATO.
The article pretty much lays this out, the IGRC-Quds Force, the Iranian mullahs key foreign strike force is smuggling weapons to thier sympathizers in Yemen. Once there, they wil be used in Yemen or forwarded to Iranian proxies
elsewhere.
The mullahs have been our enemy since 1979, upsetting thier plans is a good thing.
*Kurdistan will NEVER occur with Turkey in NATO.*
And if Kurdistan started in Iran or Iraq?
Give it to Ukraine
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