Posted on 12/10/2024 6:25:52 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The outgoing Biden-Harris administration gave Iran $10 billion in sanctions relief just days after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, despite Iran’s ongoing attacks against Israel and support for terrorist organizations.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined on November 8 that “it is in the national security interest of the United States” to waive mandatory economic sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring upward of $10 billion to Iran in electricity import payments.
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Though the first Trump administration did green-light the same waiver—causing tension with some congressional Republicans—it narrowly tailored the waiver to restrict Iranian access to the cash. The Biden State Department tweaked the waiver last year to allow Tehran to convert the funds from Iraqi dinars to euros, then hold those euros in bank accounts based in Oman. Access to a widely traded currency like the euro enables Iran to more easily spend the cash in international markets. Under the first Trump administration, Iran had to keep the cash in an escrow account in Baghdad, making it more difficult to access.
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The Biden State Department maintains that Iran is only permitted to use the funds for humanitarian needs, including medicines and other supplies. Republican critics argue that money is fungible, meaning that Tehran will have an easier time diverting its dwindling cash reserves to its regional terror proxies, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, should it have access to the sanctioned cash for other purposes.
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Exactly. Biden didn’t do anything but sign a doc.
I, among others, would certainly like to know who DID give them $10B in ‘relief’...
Which raises the point about who the “deep state” backs, among the players in the latest Syrian complication.
- you have some pro-Russian types that say it was all fixed by the CIA, and of course it all was a disaster for Iran.
- you have this, where Biden, a definite creature of the “deep state” showing genuine love for Iran - $22 Billion demonstrates quite sincere love I think.
So which is it?
Biden’s supporting, financing, protecting the Iranian terrorist regime and its nuclear bomb project is nothing short of open treason against the USA he’s sworn to defend. Especially since the Iranian dictators have repeatedly stated their plan to destroy USA first and foremost, before they turn their nukes against the Middle East and Europe
Nuking USA is what the Iranian ICBM project is for. They don’t need ICBM’s up nuke their neighboring nations. Only to bomb America.
Ok, $10 Billion, but thats still enough to demonstrate sincere love.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined on November 8 that “it is in the national security interest of the United States” to waive mandatory economic sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring upward of $10 billion to Iran in electricity import payments... Under the first Trump administration, Iran had to keep the cash in an escrow account in Baghdad, making it more difficult to access... money is fungible, meaning that Tehran will have an easier time diverting its dwindling cash reserves to its regional terror proxies, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, should it have access to the sanctioned cash for other purposes.
It could be FedGov vs. FedGov.
After all it’s seemingly a leaderless blob.
There was some story about CIA backed militants battling Pentagon backed militants at one time.
Question.....when will Brandon pardon himself?
There's something evil about Biden...
Stay tuned
I realize what I thought I knew about our government just wasn’t true, I honestly thought such a thing (giving 10Bln dollars to a terrorist state) was impossible, but now I know it’s de rigueur for the outgoing Biden administration
Is someone getting paid off?
Where in the Constitution does it give the president billions of dollars in walking around money?
Somebody should be going to jail for treason.
Good one!
Reminds me of a semi-deaf joke: Three old geezers were walking along and one says, "It's windy today". The second one says, "No, no. It's Thursday". And the third one says, "Me too. Let's have a beer".
HA
More than somebody...
biden was following orders from the ones who were pulling his strings.
Its not US money. Its permission to Iraq to pay Iran for electricity, because that was blocked by US sanctions. So Biden waived the sanctions. Which he can do.
The US has accumulated, over the years, all sorts of points of leverage. Like for instance another sanctions waiver, that Biden gave Germany in 2021, permitting Russian gas exports via Nordstream II.
How’s the NC relief plan going? Voters were sick about OUR money not going to improve American lives.
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