Posted on 04/11/2020 12:12:46 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has urged President Trump to reverse a reported plan to block an Iranian request to the IMF for $5 billion in aid to fight the coronavirus crisis -- saying it is in the U.S. national interest to accede to the request.
“I am disappointed to see reports that your administration intends to block Iran from receiving $5 billion in humanitarian aid from the IMF to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” Feinstein wrote in a letter dated Thursday to President Trump. “Providing these funds to Iran would help it respond more effectively to the disease and mitigate the risk of further destabilization in the region.”
The administration plans to block the request for an emergency loan, amid concerns that the anti-American regime still has billion-dollar accounts available to it, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Senior officials told the Journal that the loan would allow Tehran to divert the money to its economy -- which has been stunted by the sanctions imposed as part of the U.S. maximum pressure campaign -- or to finance extremist militant groups in the Middle East.
Iranian “officials have a long history of diverting funds allocated for humanitarian goods into their own pockets and to their terrorist proxies,” one of the administration officials told the outlet.
“It is in our national interest, and in the interest of international security, to help Iran contain this disease,” she said.
Her letter came a week after presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called on the Trump administration to loosen sanctions on Iran.
The former vice president said that it’s “bad enough that the Trump administration abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in favor of a 'maximum pressure' strategy that has badly backfired, encouraging Iran to become even more aggressive and restart its nuclear program.”
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F IRAN
The women is a fool...a long with Biden...
hey will use the six billion to cause more trouble..
This domestic enemy of America just continues to beat her drum....
The women is a fool...a long with Biden...
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I disagree. Imo, DiFiChiSpy is an active unreported agent for hostile foreign governments.
Biden is a career criminal.
pure hubris with this request given her misconduct during the Kav hearings...
also, deep ties with the ChiCom regime.
Now now...... let’s not be too critical. DiFi has to justify to her Iranian donors she is earning her keep.
Of course those earnings are comfortably lodged in a bank located in Cyprus. Out pf sight Out of IRS range
You can bet your booty that Feinstein would block funding for Israel. A real self-loather.
But small businesses can go F themselves right?
To Feinstein, What’s in it for you you crooked old bat. Must be something there for you, or you wouldn’t actually support an enemy of our nation? Would you? Would you?
Good grief.
Spend the money here if it’s spent anywhere.
She did have a Chinese spy working as her driver for many years. You have to wonder.
F Feinstein!
The kicker is that California will replace her with somebody WORSE.
These moneys get shuffled right back in the democrats pockets through kickbacks and shell companies.
That is what this is all about.
“... mitigate the risk of further destabilization in the region.”
No, DiFi. We want to accelerate the destabilization of the Mad Mullahs. If Iranians see them in the way of stopping the Wuflu, maybe the mullahs will get the boot.
In any case, they don’t need any more of our cash right now.
I know it's news to you that money is fungible and Iran can't be trusted.
Iran would use this money for nuclear weapons and to line the pockets of leadership and suppress political opposition.
Sure thing DiFi.
Did your Chinese spy driver tell you to say that?
Which member of her family is dealing with Iran?
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