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Boosted by nuke deal, Iran ups funding to Hezbollah, Hamas
The Times of Israel ^ | 21 September 2015 | Avi Issacharoff

Posted on 05/20/2019 1:16:45 PM PDT by detective

On Sunday, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, arrived in Iran for talks on the nuclear agreement, as part of what appears to be an attempt by the UN nuclear watchdog to evaluate whether Iran ran a military nuclear program in the past.

Amano is expected to meet with various Iranian nuclear scientists for answers on this very subject. On December 15, ahead of the lifting of crippling economic sanctions on Tehran, he is slated to present the world with definitive answers that will determine whether Iran complied with the terms of a nuclear deal signed on July 15. But the Islamic Republic is not waiting for a green light from Amano or the international community, and is working under the assumption that the sanctions will be lifted.

Since the deal was signed, Iran has significantly increased its financial support for two of the largest terror groups in the region that have become political players, Hamas and Hezbollah. In the years before the deal was signed, the crippling sanctions limited this support, which had significantly diminished along with Iran’s economy. But Tehran’s belief that tens, or hundreds, of billions of dollars will flow into the country in the coming years as a result of sanctions relief has led to a decision to boost the cash flow to these terror organizations

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: djibouti; eritrea; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; lebanon; nuclear; obama; sudan; terrorists; yemen
The article is from September 2015, but it show how when the Obama administration illegally transferred billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran, Iran used the money to increase funding of terrorists.
1 posted on 05/20/2019 1:16:45 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Maybe you can put the date of the article at the end of the headline. Then people, like myself, won’t waste their time reading the whole excerpt. :)


2 posted on 05/20/2019 2:08:15 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: detective

Remember that Obama handed them the CASH to do it ....

Did (Does) he really fear that if he doesn’t kowtow to muslims they will do what is proscribed to Apostates ???


3 posted on 05/20/2019 3:00:42 PM PDT by elbook
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To: detective

and three and a half years later, the ayatollah is bragging that they have the capability to enrich to 20% in ‘four days’ putting them over the hump in the process of making warheads


4 posted on 05/20/2019 10:17:15 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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