Biden Regime Poised To Give Iran $10 Billion

“Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”  — Qur’an 9:29

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Iran funds and trains Hamas. Iran is Hezb’allah. Iran backs the Houthis.

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Biden Admin Poised To Grant Iran Billions in Sanctions Relief, Lawmakers Warn

Sanctions waiver unlocks upward of $10 billion for Tehran

By: Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 12, 2024

The Biden administration is poised to issue a fresh sanctions waiver for Iran that will grant the country access to upward of $10 billion in frozen assets, providing Tehran with “a financial lifeline” as it foments terrorism across the Middle East, according to a group of GOP lawmakers.

In November, shortly after Hamas’s attack on Israel, the State Department signed off on a sanctions waiver that permits Iraq to transfer multibillion-dollar electricity payments to Iran. The waiver, which grants Tehran access to around $10 billion in frozen funds, is set to expire this month unless the Biden administration renews it.

A group of Republican lawmakers is concerned that the sanctions waiver will be approved, according to a letter sent late Monday to the Treasury and State Departments and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The lawmakers ask the Biden administration to provide information on how much cash Iran has been able to access in the months since sanctions were lifted.

The sanctions waiver decision comes as Iran and its regional terror proxies—which include Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen—foment chaos across the Middle East, including a series of missile attacks that killed 3 American military members and wounded more than 40. Critics of the sanctions waiver say it will enable Iran to continue funding its terrorist allies amid the worst spate of violence in the Middle East in years.

“Given the Biden Administration’s posture on the last waiver we presume that the Biden Administration will renew the waiver again to continue to allow for the transfer of funds from Iraq to Oman,” four Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Bill Huizenga (Mich.), wrote in the letter. “By waiving the application of sanctions, the Administration is maintaining a financial lifeline for the Iranian regime, even as it continues to support terrorist organizations around the world.”

The waiver allows Iraq to transfer payments for electricity imports from Iran into accounts outside the country that can be used by Tehran. The State Department maintains these funds can only be used for humanitarian purposes, such as food and medicine, but critics note that money is fungible and that Tehran can allocate resources into its terrorism enterprise if granted access to aid dollars.

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