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Kerry dismisses Iran’s financial support for Hizballah

Jul 15, 2015 11:49 pm By Robert Spencer

JOHN KERRY-STATE DEPARTMENT-AP-JOHN DHARAPAK_0“The notion that the $100 billion which Iran will obtain ‘is going to make all the difference in the world is just – it’s not true,'” Kerry said. No, but it is going to make some difference. It is going to cost people’s lives. As will this entire disastrous agreement with Iran.

“Kerry Dismisses Iran’s Financial Support for Hezbollah, Other Terror Groups,” by Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, July 15, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday played down concerns that Iran will use the windfall from sanctions relief under the nuclear agreement to boost sponsorship for terrorists, suggesting that groups like Hezbollah do not benefit all that much from Iranian financial support in the first place.

The notion that the $100 billion which Iran will obtain “is going to make all the difference in the world is just – it’s not true,” Kerry told the BBC in Vienna after the Iran nuclear agreement was announced. He was responding to a question about concerns that Iran could use funds gained through sanctions relief to increase support terrorists.

“What Iran has done for years with Hezbollah does not depend on money,” he said, in reference to the Lebanese Shi’ite group, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Similarly, he said, Iran’s controversial activities in Yemen and Iraq have not “depended on money.”

“Sure, something may go additionally somewhere,” Kerry continued. “But if President [Hasan] Rouhani and his administration do not [use the money to] take care of the people of Iran, they will have an enormous problem.”

He said it was the U.S. intelligence community analysis that whatever amount of money accrued by Iran “that finds its way somewhere, is not the difference in what is happening in the Middle East.”

In a 2010 report to Congress on Iran’s military power, the Department of Defense said that Iran “provides roughly $100-$200 million per year in funding to support Hezbollah.”

The State Department’s most recent terrorism report calls Hezbollah Iran’s “primary beneficiary, and says Tehran in 2014 continued to provide the group “with training, weapons, and explosives, as well as political, diplomatic, monetary, and organizational aid.”

“Iran has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Lebanese Hezbollah in Lebanon and has trained thousands of its fighters at camps in Iran,” it states….

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  1. Susan B says

    Jul 15, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    “Sure, something may go additionally somewhere,” Kerry continued. “But if President [Hasan] Rouhani and his administration do not [use the money to] take care of the people of Iran, they will have an enormous problem.”

    Wow!!! there is stupid and then there is really stupid. Kerry you get the award for the latter.

    • Lia Wissing says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 5:23 am

      Check that right forefinger. How close is Mr Kerry’s relationship with his Iranian-American relatives-by-marriage? Second question: have all the Darwin awards for this year been taken yet?

    • Bamaguje says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 6:23 am

      In the last decade the $100 billion had been frozen by sanctions, Iran’s “death to America” Mullahs haven’t had it to “take care” of Iranian people. And the Mullahs seem to be doing just fine.
      All the tyrannical Mullahs need to “take care” of Iranians is their repressive apparatus – Revolutionary guards, Basij, Islamist police etc.

      Did anyone seriously expect Kerry to admit he and Obama messed up in the Iran nuke deal?
      They will both lie and obfuscate to cover up and minimize their treasonous dastardly deed.

    • Bantheburka says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 10:05 am

      DELUSIONAL, these two morons have signed the ticket to the end of the world. No choice but for Israel to bomb the Nuc sites. Stay tuned.

    • Carolyne says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 11:24 am

      John Kerry does not have the best interests of this country in mind. Remember his actions in Vietnam and after–IMO Traitorous.

      His only real talent is romancing and marrying super wealthy women–sort of like a gigolo.

      • Huck Folder says

        Jul 24, 2015 at 1:51 pm

        That’s just heinzight.

        • Cecilia Ells says

          Jul 24, 2015 at 2:08 pm

          Oh, that’s good, Huck! Very good!

  2. Scott says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 12:05 am

    Ultimately, John Kerry will one day state, “If only the Iranians had cooperated”…..
    Just like Neville Chamberlain after the invasion of Poland said, “If only the Germans had cooperated”………

    • mortimer says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 8:55 am

      Exactly. The mullahs are breathing fire every day. I think congress is going to scrutinize the deal and find the devil in the details.

      • EYESOPEN says

        Jul 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm

        Sorry Mortimer. But from the looks of things these last 8 months, Congress either has no balls or is complicit in what the Usurper-in-Chief is doing – or perhaps some of both. A lot of rhetoric flying around; but they are a useless waste of air without concrete action to stop this tin-pot dictator.

  3. rev g says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 2:09 am

    Come on guys, didn’t you hear the resident snake-oil-sa!esman-in-chief on television? He spent a lot of precious air time explaining why everyone’s reservations about this deal are unfounded. When the chief executive spends this much time rationalizing the agreement it must be good, right?
    OK, OK, so I am being sarcastic, except for the snake oil part, of course

    • Huck Folder says

      Jul 24, 2015 at 2:03 pm

      Oh cummon rev g, give the guy a break once.
      Don’t you know he’s all heart?

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/president-obama-jon-snow-dead_55a03c15e4b0a47ac15c9e9f

      “At Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday, “Game of Thrones” director David Nutter revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he confirmed Snow’s death to the President Barack Obama three weeks ago.

      “[President Obama] turned to me, put his hand on my shoulder, and said, ‘You didn’t kill Jon Snow, did you?’” Nutter told the website. “I said, ‘Jon Snow is deader than dead.'””

      And here you thought he was obsessing over Iran or IS.

  4. sidney penny says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 2:34 am

    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/07/14/steyn-comparing-obama-to-neville-chamberlain-is-unfair-to-chamberlain/

    Columnist and author of “The Undocumented,” Mark Steyn argued comparing President Obama to Neville Chamberlain is “rather unfair to Neville Chamberlain” on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

    Steyn said of comparisons between Obama and Chamberlain…

    • Huck Folder says

      Jul 24, 2015 at 3:06 pm

      I half agree. But from my reading of a Churchill biography (which of course had to deal with all the world politics around him) Chamberlain and a majority of ‘politicians’ were so pacifist that Britain moved at a far slower pace to re-arm than they could have, through all the years leading to Munich, and even after.
      Chamberlain comes across as a bean-counter, who was as concerned about not going into debt as he was about re-armament, probably more so.

      I guess they could see the writing on the wall (through a glass, darkly?), and probably gained many priceless extra fighter squadrons, but if Churchill had been in power, I’m sure they would have moved many times faster.

      Nazi Germany (much larger than Britain, and with the resources (including slave labor) of the occupied countries) had been on a war footing, and operating its armaments industry on a 24/365 regime for years.

      On the other hand, if Britain increased its front line fighters (Spitfires and Hurricanes) say from 80 to 100 squadrons, those extra 20 squadrons would be vastly more important to Britain, than an extra 20 squadrons of fighters to Germany.

  5. sidney penny says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 2:39 am

    “Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday played down concerns that Iran will use the windfall from sanctions relief under the nuclear agreement to boost sponsorship for terrorists, suggesting that groups like Hezbollah do not benefit all that much from Iranian financial support in the first place.”

    Well at least all this has nothing to do with Islam?

    Hezbollah: religious terrorist organisation?

    Iran:Death to the Jews?

    Did not benefit that much,maybe because Iran did not have that much to give ,Now they have that much MORE to share thanks to the USA

  6. Cecilia Ellis says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 3:13 am

    -On February 26, 2015, the United States officially removed Iran and Hezbollah from its “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Communities 2015” report. As published in an article by Jewish Press, “former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told Fox News journalist Greta Susteren that he believes the removal of Iran and Hezbollah from the terrorist list was not a simple ‘format change’ as reporters were told at a briefing, but rather a deliberate attempt by the Obama administration to deceive the American public. What we’re having now is an Orwellian example of disappearing references to Iran and its proxy Hezbollah from the terrorism report . . . This was a concession, I think, by the administration relating to the nuclear negotiation. You will not find it in the signed deal.”

    (See http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/us-removes-iran-hezbollah-from-national-intelligence-terrorist-list/2015/03/19/ for article and http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Unclassified_2015_ATA_SFR_-_SASC_FINAL.pdf for Threat Assessment report.)

    -What distinguishes this Worldwide Threat Assessment from truth is this: On June 19, 2015, John Kerry’s Department of State issued Country Reports on Terrorism 2014. Iran is specifically addressed in this report, as depicted in the following excerpts:

    “Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1984, Iran continued its terrorist-related activity in 2014, including support for Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, Lebanese Hizballah, and various groups in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. . . . Iran views Syria as a crucial causeway in its weapons supply route to Lebanese Hizballah, its primary beneficiary, and as a key pillar in its “resistance” front. In 2014, Iran continued to provide arms, financing, training, and the facilitation of primarily Iraqi Shia and Afghan fighters to support the Asad regime’s brutal crackdown that has resulted in the deaths of at least 191,000 people in Syria, according to August UN estimates.”

    “The IRGC-QF, in concert with Lebanese Hizballah, provided training outside of Iraq as well as advisors inside Iraq for Shia militants in the construction and use of sophisticated improvised explosive device (IED) technology and other advanced weaponry. Similar to Hizballah fighters, many of these trained Shia militants have used these skills to fight for the Asad regime in Syria or against ISIL in Iraq.”

    “In 2014, Iran’s state sponsorship of terrorism worldwide remained undiminished through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), its Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and Tehran’s ally Hizballah, which remained a significant threat to the stability of Lebanon and the broader region. [See Chapter 3, State Sponsors on Terrorism, for more information about Iranian activities.]”
    (See http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2014/index.htm for Country Report.)

    “The notion that the $100 billion which Iran will obtain ‘is going to make all the difference in the world is just – it’s not true,’ Kerry told the BBC in Vienna after the Iran nuclear agreement was announced.”

    -Bottom line: John Kerry is lying. Read the reports. Iran absolutely will use those funds to support its theocratic agenda and support of terrorism globally. That $100 billion will make a lot of difference in the world.

  7. gerard says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 4:21 am

    “But if President [Hasan] Rouhani and his administration do not [use the money to] take care of the people of Iran, they will have an enormous problem.”

    I doubt that much of this money will go to benefit the people. Just enough to keep them quiet and the rest to Rouhani and friends and weaponry. Especially weaponry. Or am I just a cynic?

    • Westman says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 5:36 am

      I suppose Mr. Kerry thinks that if the money is used to kill Israelis via Hezbollah, instead of trickling down to citizens(Allah’s slaves), that the Iranians will rise up and throw the Ayatollah out of office. First, of course, they would face the Basij and Revolutionary Guards; just a small problem.

      Iranian Democracy could, just possibly, be an oxymoron.

  8. gerard says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 4:26 am

    “Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday played down concerns that Iran will use the windfall from sanctions relief under the nuclear agreement to boost sponsorship for terrorists,”

    Well he would, wouldn’t he? What does anyone expect from this serpant?: The truth?

    • particolor says

      Jul 16, 2015 at 5:19 am

      If Iran wants to be really nice to fellow Earthlings it could give half of that money to Greece and settle their National Debt !! And pay some of the Welfare for the Clowns that have Invaded the Place ! 🙂
      Just Dreaming !! 🙂

  9. Rita says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 5:25 am

    Big difference between Chamberlain and Hussein Obama: Chamberlain WAS naive – Obama is far from it:

    http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/obamas-munich-chamberlain-or-mufti-al.html

  10. Angemon says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 6:52 am

    “But if President [Hasan] Rouhani and his administration do not [use the money to] take care of the people of Iran, they will have an enormous problem.”

    What are the Iranians going to do if he doesn’t? Protest on the streets and ask for change, like in 2011, when Obama backed the corrupt theocratic regime instead of the ones trying to bring it down?

  11. duh_swami says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 8:16 am

    Abdullah Kerry waves his magical finger…I’m surprised he doesn’t shout Allahu Akbar, or begin his speeches with bismillah.
    In the name of Allah I’m going to tell you outrageous lies called ‘super taqiyya’…Most of the western elite in charge use it frequently. Rasool Obama speeches are loaded with it.
    The public does not recognize super taqiyya when they hear it, and are taken in by the smooth sounding lies. There are only three groups of people who use ‘super taqiyya’, desperate Mahoundians, western politicians, and media hacks. It ‘s difficult to tell one from the other without a score card…

  12. Nonblvr says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 8:23 am

    Great photo attached to this story. Which one of the muppets is it? Stattler or Hilton?

  13. David QUilty says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 8:39 am

    A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you are talking real money…Mrs Heinz is very generous with her money, maybe that has caused JFK to loose some perspective on the power of money.

  14. Don says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei walks over the Israeli flag saying “The Zionist regime is condemned to vanish” before the ink was even dry on the ludicrous nuke agreement. What does that tell you about what Iran plans to do with the billions it will get from this deal? Obama and Kerry are traitorous fools. Israel will do what it has to in order to survive including the destruction of Iranian nuclear facilities if needed.

    That Obama has turned his back on Israel in favor of a nuclear deal and the lifting of oil embargoes on a murderous regime that supports terrorism is beyond belief. A very sad day indeed. I don’t know if this is a monumental miscalculation or a deliberate move to placate those of the “religion of peace”. Either way, we are in trouble today than yesterday.

  15. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jul 16, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    Did this man already make conversion (so soon?) by presenting here his one finger, a well known symbol of the IS terrorists and butchers?

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