Biden Considering Giving $10 Billion More To Iran Through Sanctions Waiver: Report | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    President Joe Biden is reportedly considering approving a sanctions waiver this week that would give the Islamic Republic of Iran $10 billion in funds that are frozen in Iraq.

    The news comes after Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic terrorist group that is backed by Iran, murdered 1,200 Israelis, wounded 5,300+, and kidnapped more than 240 people in an unprecedented attack last month. Iran provided weapons that were used in the attacks on innocent Israeli citizens and they trained hundreds of Hamas terrorists in the weeks leading up to the attacks.

    The waiver would allow Iraq to transfer frozen electricity payments into Iranian bank accounts in other countries in the region, according to a report from The Washington Free Beacon.

    Biden agreed to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets for a prisoner swap prior to the October 7 terrorist attacks, but following overwhelming pressure from Congress and the American people, agreed with Qatar to re-freeze the money.

    Richard Goldberg, a former Trump administration official who is now a senior adviser at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said Tuesday evening that the State Department has sent the waiver to Congress "just before 5 p.m. ET to prevent review by key committees until the morning."

    "Biden administration may be attempting to classify the waiver," Goldberg added. "Sent to House and Senate Security Offices to prevent public oversight tonight. The law requires an unclassified waiver but permits a classified annex. White House trying to hide this $10 billion to Iran."

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said in an NBC News interview in September after the Biden administration initially agreed to unfreeze the $6 billion for Iran that the country would spend the money however it wanted to, which contradicted the administration's claims that Iran could only access the money for humanitarian purposes.

    "This money belongs to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and naturally, we will decide, the Islamic Republic of Iran will decide to spend it wherever we need it," Raisi said. "How to spend our money of course, it is under the authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

    NBC News' Lester Holt then asked, "So if I hear you clearly that it will be used for more than humanitarian purposes in your view?"

    "Humanitarian means whatever the Iranian people need, so this money will be budgeted for those needs," Raisi said. "And the needs of the Iranian people will be decided and determined by the Iranian government."

poll#211

26 days after the October 7th Terror attacks on Israel, where over 1400 Jewish men, women and children were gruesomely murdered, and hundreds more made hostage: Should the Biden /Harris administration finally state that the administration's primary Middle East negotiating partner, Iran, is behind the funding and strategy of the aggressors, the Hamas Terrorists, or continue to take the more moderate position of "Don't," which is clearly not working?

  Yes, name Iran as the funding /strategy culprit, and begin to enforce the President Trump era sanctions to END Iran's ability to prosecute this war against Israel and the United States.

  No, Iran is a valuable partner in the motives of the Biden / Harris administration, and must not be named as the culprit and our enemy.

  I have larger concerns just to survive in this economy.

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poll#209

In the minds of many, since January 20, 2021, the World has become far less safe in every theater of conflict, beginning with the attack of Israel by Iran /Hamas, so the question becomes: What caused this Worldwide calamity of extreme geopolitical dysfunction, and what will correct it?

  Joe Biden is the cause of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when a Republican is elected president.

  This delayed Worldwide dysfunction and constant conflict is all Donald Trump's fault, as it is with everything that occurs going forward, and long before the man ever became the 45th president..

  Joe Biden is the "root cause" of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when former President Donald John Trump is elected president.

  In the imitable words of Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?"

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