Actually read the article, it cites its sources.
"Let’s first dispel one claim made by Trump and Ramaswamy. The $6 billion in question is not U.S. taxpayer dollars. It is Iranian money that was being held in South Korean banks.
In a press conference on Sept. 12, Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the State Department, said the Trump administration “allowed these accounts to be set up so countries could purchase Iranian oil” and that South Korean banks held $6 billion worth of payments when the U.S. issued new sanctions in 2018 and 2019.
“Iran has always been able under the regime set up by the previous administration to access the funds in these accounts,” Miller said.
Indeed, in October 2019, the Trump administration announced “a new humanitarian mechanism” to allow for humanitarian trade of agriculture, food, medicine and medical devices with Iran.
“This mechanism, designed solely for the purpose of commercial exports of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, and medical devices to Iran, will provide unprecedented transparency into humanitarian trade to Iran and help ensure that humanitarian goods go to the Iranian people, and are not diverted by the Iranian regime to fund its nefarious purposes,” the 2019 announcement by the Treasury and State Department said."
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tvfan (14545)
a year ago
That is why it was diverted/rerouted through shell banks so that funds that would have been used for humanitarian purposes were used to support terrorism as I have already stated before you cited a left-wing source as usual.
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Skavau (15993)
a year ago
Sorry, but you simply didn't read the article. Where are you even getting your sources from?
These aren't taxpayers dollars.
"Money Not Yet Released
It is also wrong to say the transfer of the $6 billion funded the recent Hamas attack, because Iran hasn’t yet received any of the money.
The U.S. Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Brian Nelson, posted a statement on social media on Oct. 7 saying, “All of the money held in restricted accounts in Doha as part of the arrangement to secure the release of 5 Americans in September remains in Doha. Not a penny has been spent.”
Glenn E. Robinson, a resident fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, told us via email that “the agreement of just a few weeks ago was much too recent to have had any impact on the events of the past 72 hours.” In addition, he said, “The Hamas operation was low tech, low cost. I doubt the cost of the material used in the operation exceeded perhaps $100,000 or so.”"
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tvfan (14545)
a year ago
They don’t have to; it is “allocated” since the funds are already guaranteed.
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Skavau (15993)
a year ago
And yet since Iran hasn't actually received any money, the claims that it's already happened are false. And this all seems to stem from the Trump era anyway.
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tvfan (14545)
a year ago
They have received them via the shell banks through the allocation.
It was the Biden Administration that unfroze and released those funds, not Trump, lol.
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Skavau (15993)
a year ago
>They have received them via the shell banks through the allocation.
When? Can I get some sources please?
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