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Blinken: Iran Has ‘Always Been Allowed to Use' $6 Billion, We Just Moved it to Where It ‘Could Actually Be Used'
2023-10-14
[Beitbart] During a portion of an interview with NBC News set to air on Thursday’s broadcast of "NBC Nightly News," Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
stated that the $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen by a prisoner swap deal the Biden administration brokered was money Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
was allowed to accrue under the Trump administration and Iran has "always been allowed to use" these funds for humanitarian reasons, but "for technical reasons, Iran was having trouble actually using the funds," and the Biden administration moved it to a different account, "where the money could actually be used, but under the supervision of our Treasury Department, only for humanitarian purposes."

Blinken said, "The money in question, Iranian money, not American taxpayer dollars, is money that was allowed to accrue in a bank account from the sale of Iranian oil. And that mechanism, allowing Iran to accrue this money, to get the money and have it in an account, was established by the Trump administration. Now, the account that it was established in in South Korea, for technical reasons, Iran was having trouble actually using the funds, which it’s always been allowed to use for humanitarian purposes, under our sanctions, under our laws, we always carve out humanitarian, food, medicine, medical equipment. So, what we did is we moved the money from one account in South Korea, to another account in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, where the money could actually be used, but under the supervision of our Treasury Department, only for humanitarian purposes. And not a dollar of that money has been spent to date. And we retain the right to freeze that account."
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  Makes sense - Kamala had no use for hers
Posted by: Frank G   2023-10-14 18:47  

#4  This makes no sense at all. Words have no meaning to Mr. Blinken. He could (but probably will not) benefit from a dictionary.
Posted by: Tom   2023-10-14 15:04  

#3  We almost didn’t get them their cash in time.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-10-14 14:48  

#2  "We've got to let them spend the money so we can see how they are going to spend the money."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-10-14 13:41  

#1  Word salad lessons from Kamela.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-10-14 13:27  

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