6 billion for Iran
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shareIran is under sanctions. Part of what this means is that when they try to spend their own money outside their borders with our allies, it becomes frozen. Such is the case with the $6 billion in question for humanitarian aid from South Korea & Qatar.
When we want something from them, such as prisoner release and exchange, inspections or similar, then sometimes a deal is done to overlook the transaction or unfreeze their assets.
This is tough and smart diplomacy, and it also ensures the Iranians will make purchases that help their people so perhaps we can be negotiated with to overlook it.
You want to pretend that this is American taxpayer money, and not Iranian money so you can propagate your MAGA lies. 👎
sanctioned? sanctioned for what? Sanctioned is just a bullshit word for extortion.
shareFrozen assets are not stolen. They are simply stored in their foreign accounts and remain inaccessible until such time as they can be used as a bargaining chip for prisoner exchange or whatever. There has been a history of these foreign accounts being established and then being utilitized for terrorist operations. Iran is acknowledged the world over, to be a failed terrorist-supporting state.
They can export their oil and use their currency in their own borders, but they are to remain quarantined. Both American political parties support these sanctions. The people who make up that country are not an enemy, but their government is a extremist authoritarion theocracy with a violent outlook towards Israel and the West. We hold on to hope that the young emerging population—which has shown a tendency towards favoring moderation, will one day overthrow their leaders and rejoin civilization.
How old are you guys, anyhow? You must have the memory of a f-ckin' fruit fly! How is it possible for the users here to remain so ignorant? Are you high school age? Are you anarchists? What is it?
I'm a Democrat, but it wasn't so long ago that the Right tried using this as a flagship issue for them to criticize Obama and the Left for, supposedly, easing these tensions. It was all over talk radio in 2015. That's exactly the position that the OP, darkpast, an Ultra MAGA Trump-supporter, seems to be currently taking. (In the most dishonest way, of course.) But his candidate literally ran on these strict sanctions!
Literally no mainstream political constituency wants to remove oversight and sanctions completely off of Iran.
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Oh really? Iran is a terrorist-supporting state yet every terrorist is trained in and paid for by Saudi Arabia. Where's their so-called sanctions. Man, the news tells you something and you just immediately eat the slop. Crazy. You sure you're not the high school kid, believing everything your cat lady teacher read to you out of some indoctrination textbook? Grow up.
share9/11 terrorists were indeed mainly from Saudi Arabia, but they were never supported, trained or funded by the government there. Osama bin Laden, who was just a very wealthy individual, and his al Qaeda group out of Afghanistan planned that event. This is common knowledge. Saudi's were used probably just because it's a population center with an established infrastucture—certainly in comparison to Afganistan and Pakistan.
This was all before inter-agency cooperation and oversight by the Department of Homeland Security, which didn't exist prior. The Bush administration had a ceremonial Counterterrorism task force prior to 9/11, and they never once held a meeting. Experts like Richard Clarke and Sandy Berger were completely ignored. The August 6th PDB memo was disregarded. This is because, as I repeatedly say throughout this thread... GOP leadership are NOT interested in actually governing until we, the American people, force their hand. They are businessmen, there to generate wealth for their ruling class, and enable all the worst abuses motivated by greed and avarice. Fortunately, what they now disparagingly call the Deep State (career bureaucrats who are our only salvation) keep things running smoothly to the best of their ability. As you can expect, the Deep State, being the only roadblock to their unbridled lust for power, are portrayed negatively by them to their ignorant voters. Absolutely disgraceful.
Can't answer the question, huh? Just divert blame. Where's Saudi's sanctions, or is okay because they have centralized banks controlled by the usury merchant and have an understanding? Who did Iran fund? Save your mind broken babble for some schmuck who would put it up with it. Probably no one.
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