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originally posted by: onestonemonkey
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Israel is going to stop trusting the US or else use the US to leak phony intel to the Iranians.
The way relations between Netenyahu and Biden have been going I would be surprised if the Israelis are not feeding them disinfo.
The "leak" was probably done as a form of punishment by Biden co. because they really don't want Israel to hit Iran in any substantial(and justified)way.
So now Iran are adjusting their defences on what may be disinfo..
Ariane Tabatabai is the chief of staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations. She is also an officer in US Naval Intelligence.
She has access to all naval movements and all special forces operations in the world, and specifically in the Middle East.
Some familiar names from previous reports appear in the new one: Mostafa Zahrani, a senior Iranian foreign ministry diplomat with strong ties to IRGC, and Ariane Tabatabaei, currently at Pentagon, whose close and extensive ties with the regime have raised many eyebrows, and led to calls for revocation of her security clearance –as has happened with her mentor, Robert Malley, who until a year ago was Joe Biden’s Iran envoy.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: WeMustCare
That was frozen bank assets that we had for part of the nuclear deal.
It was failed diplomacy, but we didn’t “give” them money. We unfroze it.
People act like that tipped the scale and created the environment in the Middle East now… but the reality is the toppling of Saddam created a power vacuum in the Middle East allowing Iran to consolidate power.
originally posted by: matafuchs
A real leak. Has anyone been raided or indicted yet?
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: WeMustCare
That was frozen bank assets that we had for part of the nuclear deal.
It was failed diplomacy, but we didn’t “give” them money. We unfroze it.
People act like that tipped the scale and created the environment in the Middle East now… but the reality is the toppling of Saddam created a power vacuum in the Middle East allowing Iran to consolidate power.
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: WeMustCare
That was frozen bank assets that we had for part of the nuclear deal.
It was failed diplomacy, but we didn’t “give” them money. We unfroze it.
People act like that tipped the scale and created the environment in the Middle East now… but the reality is the toppling of Saddam created a power vacuum in the Middle East allowing Iran to consolidate power.
That money was marked to go to victims of 911 if I remember, and that got squashed by Iran sympathizers and bribe recipients.
originally posted by: hangedman13
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: WeMustCare
That was frozen bank assets that we had for part of the nuclear deal.
It was failed diplomacy, but we didn’t “give” them money. We unfroze it.
People act like that tipped the scale and created the environment in the Middle East now… but the reality is the toppling of Saddam created a power vacuum in the Middle East allowing Iran to consolidate power.
No it was not. That money was from the previous regime. It had nothing to do with the current regimes nuclear program, until it was used to pay them from allegedly stopping that program. Which they did not do!
Biden Keeps the Billions Flowing to Iran
Choosing not to enforce oil sanctions finances Tehran’s terrorism. You’d think the Biden Administration would have realized by now that enriching the Iranian regime is a dangerous mistake. You’d be wrong. Relaxed U.S. enforcement of oil sanctions continued through October, refilling Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s coffers even after the Oct. 7 slaughter and the more than 40 attacks on U.S. troops by Iran’s proxies in the weeks since.
Iran exported nearly 1.4 million barrels of oil per day in October, sustaining its average for 2023. This is up 80% from the 775,000 barrels per day Iran averaged under the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure” strategy, according to United Against Nuclear Iran, the group of former U.S. Ambassador Mark Wallace and Sen. Joe Lieberman, whose Tanker Tracker generates the best public data we have.
The Iranian surge in oil exports since President Biden took over has brought Iran an additional $32 billion to $35 billion, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The calculations are tricky, but the cause of the Iranian windfall is clear: As part of Mr. Biden’s quiet diplomacy with Iran, the U.S. has curtailed sanctions enforcement. Customers and middlemen have concluded the risk is low and the discount on Iran’s oil is too good to pass up.
originally posted by: grey580
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
What exactly pro Iran did this administration or Obamas do? Let's clarify your claim.
Trump also claimed that Obama gave Iran “1.8 Billion Dollars in CASH!” Facts First: This is roughly true. As part of a settlement, Obama transferred $1.7 billion in cash to Iran in 2016. The administration also used the money to pressure Iran to release several American prisoners. The Obama administration maintained that the payments were made as a reimbursement to Iran for military equipment that the country had purchased from the US in the late 1970s but the US never delivered on. The entire $1.7 billion, given in two separate payments of $400 million and $1.3 billion, was provided in cash. The timing of the first payment corresponded with Iran’s release of the American prisoners, which occurred the same day. While Obama repeatedly said in early August 2016 that the money was not part of a ransom for these Americans, the administration later admitted that the timing of the first installment was used as leverage to get the prisoners released.
The Iran Deal unlocked Iranian assets that were previously frozen due to sanctions, but it’s unclear how much those assets were worth – $150 billion is the highest estimate provided by US officials and it’s thought that Iran could not have accessed all of that money because much of it was tied up in projects overseas.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: hangedman13
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: WeMustCare
That was frozen bank assets that we had for part of the nuclear deal.
It was failed diplomacy, but we didn’t “give” them money. We unfroze it.
People act like that tipped the scale and created the environment in the Middle East now… but the reality is the toppling of Saddam created a power vacuum in the Middle East allowing Iran to consolidate power.
No it was not. That money was from the previous regime. It had nothing to do with the current regimes nuclear program, until it was used to pay them from allegedly stopping that program. Which they did not do!
It was frozen Iranian assets. I never said from which regime.
The US started the Iranian nuclear program in the 60’s. We built them a nuclear reactor.
Not everything can be boiled down to the last decade, much less two.
Everyone is so hell bent on figuring out how every geopolitical matter translates to US domestic 2 party politics. It’s rarely that easy.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Iran ordered to pay billions to relatives of 9/11 victims
Can we just agree that NO money should have been transferred to a country with direct connections to killing US soldiers?