{"id":19138,"date":"2023-10-17T03:21:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19138"},"modified":"2023-10-17T03:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:21:23","slug":"biden-is-our-6-billion-mideast-disaster-thanks-to-his-support-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19138","title":{"rendered":"Biden is our $6 billion Mideast disaster thanks to his support of Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 7, 2023, will live in infamy as the deadliest day for the Jewish people since World War II. On that day, the terrorist group Hamas unleashed<\/u><\/a> a massive surprise attack, launching thousands of rockets at Israeli cities and slaughtering hundreds of civilians \u2014 Israelis, Americans and others \u2014 in towns near the border with Gaza. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This barbarism would not have been possible without the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/u><\/a> Yet, President Joe Biden might still hand the ayatollahs over $6 billion. This week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and I will introduce legislation to permanently block this payment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran has bankrolled and supported Hamas for decades. Iran funds Hamas\u2019 political organization in the Gaza Strip. Iran assisted Hamas in manufacturing the rockets that it is firing into Israeli cities.<\/u><\/a> Iran instructed Hamas in how to build and operate the armed drones that it is flying towards Israeli civilian targets. And Iran trained many of the Hamas terrorists committing atrocities against Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most damning, Iran provided direct assistance in planning the October 7 attacks. According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) helped plot the October 7 attacks since August, the same month Biden announced that he would give Iran $6 billion. Iran\u2019s foreign minister attended at least two meetings with Hamas and the IRGC to discuss the attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran gave Hamas the money, the arms, the training, and the plans to commit mass murder against one of America\u2019s closest allies. After Hamas committed these acts of evil against Israel \u2014 killing 27 Americans in the process \u2014 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/u><\/a> praised the attacks, writing “God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Biden\u2019s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has acknowledged Iran\u2019s “broad complicity” in the devastating October 7 attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just recently, another Iranian-backed terrorist organization, Hezbollah, began its own attacks against Israel, launching rockets and drones from Lebanon. Like Hamas, Hezbollah would likely not exist without Iran\u2019s backing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Iran bankrolls terrorists, Biden bankrolls Iran. Since taking office, Joe Biden has helped unfreeze at least $10 billion in Iranian assets. And through his administration\u2019s lax enforcement of sanctions, Biden has also helped Iran make an estimated $80 billion in oil profits since 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s no coincidence that Iran doubled its funding for the IRGC \u2014 the very military branch that plotted the October 7 attack \u2014 to $22 billion last year. It doesn\u2019t take a genius to conclude that Iran used some of the $90 billion Biden Dividend to strengthen the terrorist arm of its military. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Iran could receive another $6 billion in cash. This $6 billion payment is part of an ill-conceived hostage deal that Biden concluded with the Iranians, which provides the ayatollahs with the equivalent dollar amount of over half a squadron of F-35s per hostage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The administration assures critics that this $6 billion can only be used for humanitarian purposes \u2014 something the Iranian government denies. Iran\u2019s President Ebrahim Raisi has said that his government will spend the $6 billion “wherever we need it.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raisi even redefined the word “humanitarian” in an interview with Lester Holt, saying “humanitarian means whatever the Iranian people needs, so this money will be budgeted for those needs, and the needs of the Iranian people will be decided and determined by the Iranian government.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Iran bankrolls terrorists, Biden bankrolls Iran. Since taking office, Joe Biden has helped unfreeze at least $10 billion in Iranian assets. And through his administration\u2019s lax enforcement of sanctions, Biden has also helped Iran make an estimated $80 billion in oil profits since 2021. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if we believed the administration \u2014 which we shouldn\u2019t \u2014 money is fungible, meaning that if Iran spends $6 billion less on civilian projects, it will have $6 billion more to spend on its military. The risk is simply too great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under public pressure, the Biden administration decided yesterday to delay the release of this $6 billion. However, it refuses to say that these funds will remain frozen permanently.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will also work with my fellow senators to end Iran\u2019s Biden Dividend, by strengthening existing sanctions and returning to a policy of maximum economic pressure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no such thing as purely economic or humanitarian\u00a0assistance to a terrorist state. Any U.S. payment to the Iranian government constitutes public financing for terrorism. The United States government should not give Iran another red cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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