Remember When USA Gave Money to Iran?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

How could Iran afford to buy so many ballistic missiles to use against Israel?  Here's when they had lots of money.  

WashingtonCNN — 

The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane

 delivery of $400 million in cash in 2016 on the same day Iran released four

 American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US 

officials confirmed Wednesday.

President Barack Obama approved the $400 million transfer, which he had 

announced in January as part of the Iran nuclear deal. The money was flown 

into Iran on wooden pallets stacked with Swiss francs, euros and other 

currencies as the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement resolving claims 

at an international tribunal at The Hague over a failed arms deal under the 

time of the Shah.

7The Wall Street Journal revealed this week that in January 2016, the Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran.

The Wall Street Journal broke news that the Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran. The money was owed as part of a failed arms deal prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But the payment coincided within the release of four Americans imprisoned in Tehran, raising questions about cash for prisoners.                                                 

                                                  Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin Senator 

In 2015, Baldwin, Democrat,  voted with Democrats against a Republican effort to block Democratic former President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Republicans failed to get the 60 votes needed to block the deal, which lifted U.S. sanctions on Iran in exchange for limiting Iran’s nuclear capabilities. In other words, the Democrats took off the sanctions preventing Iran from receiving money!  Iran's nuclear capabilities have just gone underground, secretly developing to the level it is at today.  

Then,  Baldwin was one of the first U.S. senators to urge the Biden administration to  refreeze the money after the Hamas attacks on Israel. She joined a bipartisan group of 13 senators in an Oct. 13 letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The 2015 agreement didn’t send money to Iran, but rather freed up Iranian assets previously frozen under sanctions. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew who  told lawmakers in July 2015 that Iran would gain access to an estimated $56 billion under the deal, though other estimates from Iranian officials placed that number lower.

Donald Trump criticized the move today at his rally in Portland, Maine.

DONALD TRUMP (R), Presidential Nominee: Four hundred million in cash. It's being flown in an airplane to Iran. I wonder where that money really goes, by the way. Right? I wonder where it really goes.  Well, it went to either in their pockets, which I actually think more so, or toward terrorism, probably a combination of both.

Besides this amount, another commentator said that President Barack Obama's administration had given $150 billion to Iran, effectively, they argued, funding Hamas.  Thus, Obama managed to give Iran $150 billion + $400 million=150.4 billion US$

The Biden administration on November 14, 2023,  extended a sanctions waiver to allow Iran to access upwards of $10 billion in electricity revenue once held in escrow in Iraq. The waiver allows Baghdad to continue purchasing electricity from Iran and, in a change from past policy, for Iran to convert its revenue into euros and draw on the money for budget imports out of Iraq and Oman. So now, $150.4 billion + $10 billion =

$160.4 billion dollars.  

The extension comes just over a month after Hamas — a terrorist group armed and funded by the regime in Tehran — conducted a surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping more than 240, which would be the October 7th massacre . Other proxies financed and armed by Tehran have attacked U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria with rockets and drones.

The July waiver came just as an unacknowledged nuclear understanding between the United States and Iran, evading the congressional review requirement of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. Weeks later, the administration agreed to release another $6 billion in Iranian funds frozen in South Korea as part of a deal to secure the release of Tehran’s American hostages

According to the Associated Press, U.S. officials insist Iran can only spend the released funds on humanitarian purchases, including food, medicine, medical equipment, and agricultural goods. Yet opponents of the waiver note that money is fungible and that the waiver will allow the regime to free up funds to continue arming its anti-U.S. and anti-Israel proxies.  Is this still happening?  

Since the war, Tehran has steadily expanded its missile arsenal. It has also invested heavily in its own industries and infrastructure to lessen dependence on unreliable foreign sources. It is now able to produce its own missiles, although some key components still need to be imported. Iran has demonstrated that it can also significantly expand the range of acquired missiles, as it has done with Nodong missiles from North Korea, which it then renamed.  Iran’s missiles can already hit any part of the Middle East, including Israel. Over time, Tehran has established the capacity to create missiles to address a full range of strategic objectives. 

• Iran’s indigenous Fateh-110 family of solid-fuel missiles have achieved the precision necessary to destroy military and critical-infrastructure targets reliably, as demonstrated during its January 2020 attack against U.S. forces stationed at Ayn al Asad airbase in Iraq using Zolfaghar missiles. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Netanyahu showed all in the UN in 2018 how close Iran was to having nuclear power to use in their missiles, and the USA didn't listen because they went out to lunch.  They simply walked out just before he spoke.

Today, on October 11, 2024,  Iran has significantly advanced nuclear capabilities, possessing a large stockpile of enriched uranium, including material close to weapons-grade, which could theoretically be used to produce multiple nuclear weapons if further enriched, though the US intelligence community currently assesses that Iran is not actively pursuing the development of a nuclear device; however, experts warn that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon relatively quickly if it chooses to do so, with estimates of "breakout time" ranging from several months to a year depending on the level of enrichment required.

Resource:

https://iranprimer.usip.org/resource/irans-ballistic-missile-program

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https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/15/iran-receives-access-to-10-billion-thanks-to-u-s-sanctions-waiver/

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/us-give-iran-150-billion-barack-obama-jack-posobiec-1835083

https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/about/about-tammy

https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/articles-reports/irans-nuclear-timetable-weapon-potential#:~:text=Dividing%20the%202%2C295%20SWU%20by,revised%20April%2013%2C%201995).

The Terrorists With the Worst Attitude: Iran

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                                

Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran

"The worst of all the serious threats we face TODAY is a NUCLEAR-ARMED ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.

John Kerry and Obama do not seem to worry much about Iran, but Israel has been.  Iran's Supreme Leader made it clear that Iran is determined to destroy Jews, the Jewish State of Israel and America.  He is a revived HAMAN; the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei-highest power in Iran.
                                                                     

This man wielding such power seemed to gloat about the nuclear talks with Kerry which just wasted the USA's time, for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told his people that "We have neither compromised over Iran's nuclear rights, nor will ever do so, and there is no doubt that the Iran nuclear technology will remain functioning.  

This source of oil, and Iran has been loaded with it, doesn't need atomic power to run its country, but wants to use it as a source of power for atomic weaponry.  On November 9th, the anniversary of the Nazi Krysstallnacht pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria, the Ayatollah called for ISRAEL'S COMPLETE DESTRUCTION.   he stated that 'THE ONLY CURE' for Israel is ISRAEL'S ANNIHILATION."

Then he called for arming the West Bank just like Gaza.  Iranian missiles and Iran's rocket-building technical assistance has helped Hamas to attack Israel for years.  Judea and Samaria will be getting the same assistance now.  That's what they have in mind for Palestine, the former Jewish Judea and Samaria to become another Gaza.  Iran wants to deliver nuclear weapons to Fatah-Hamas terrorists who are already on Israel's doorstep.  

Kerry managed to get a counterproductive, permissive interim agreement in November 2013 just to get Iran to come talk with him at a negotiating table.  It lets Iran continue developing nuclear components.  They can continue with their uranium enrichment.  All the essential elements of their nuclear weapons program were kept intact.

During all this time, Iran has been getting relief from UN sanctions under the interim agreement.  They have been helped immensely from the Obama administrations easing of sanctions because they had  high inflation and this cut it in half.  Now their economy is growing.  Tourists are arriving.  All this benefit amounts to giving them about $20 billion.  Do we really think that with a recovering economy they will voluntarily curtail their nuclear weapons program or end their hatred of America and Israel?
                                                                       

Hassan Rouhani , Iran's president, is calling Israel "a wound that must be removed. "   He told the International Atomic Energy Agency that HIS GOVERNMENT WILL NOT GIVE UP ONE IOTA OF ITS ABSOLUTE RIGHTS ON THE NUCLEAR ISSUE.  
                                                                               

John Kerry, Sec. of State 

Kerry cannot strengthen sanctions now after weakening them.  The USA envoys have warned Israel against taking military action against Iran and then the USA also leaked information about Israeli use of Azerbaijan airfields for possible operation center against Iran and revealing details of an American-=Israeli top-secret ballistic missile defense system.  Friends?  Do friends to things like this to their friends?  No, they don't.  Will Israel be able to trust the USA with information after this?

We learned about Iran's goal in 2002.  when an opposition group revealed secret activity including construction of an uranium enrichment plant and a heavy-water reactor.
                                                                                  

Prime Minister Netanyahu at UN meeting warning of danger from Iran

There are already 16, 300 nuclear weapons in the world today, mostly held by Russia with 8,000 and the USA with 7,300.  France, China, UK, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea have the remainder, so we do have atomic weapons in the hands of very potentially dangerous people, but none of these 9 countries have made threats upon another country to wipe them out such as Iran has to Israel.  
             
A recent Pentagon intelligence report said that by 2015, Iran will have ICBMs capable of carrying nuclear weapons that can hit the United States.  Is our country now living under the weight of nuclear blackmail and we citizens not realize it?  Are we being kept in the shadows of this dealing?
Update: 1/14/15 ran’s Revolutionary Guards acknowledged it runs missile manufacturing plants in Syria. (honest reporting).  HonestReporting.com
Resource: ZOA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushehr_Nuclear_Power_Plant
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-11709428