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Iran spends $1.7 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds to boost its military

Jun 10, 2016 10:36 am By Robert Spencer

Your tax dollars at work, aiding the military of a state that routinely has its citizens chant “Death to America!” This money will also go to aid Hizballah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and that will result in more jihad murders, primarily of Israeli civiians. All of this is courtesy Barack Obama and John Kerry. How they must be laughing in Tehran.

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“Iran Spends $1.7 Billion in U.S. Taxpayer Funds to Boost Its Military,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, June 9, 2016:

The State Department is staying silent after Iranian officials disclosed that the Islamic Republic spent a recent payment by the United States of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to expand and build-up its military, according to comments provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

The Obama administration earlier this year paid Iran $1.7 billion from a U.S. taxpayer-funded account in order to settle decades-old legal disputes with the Islamic Republic.

The payment has been caught up in controversy following claims by Iranian officials and some in the U.S. Congress it was part of a “ransom payment” to secure the release of American hostages and 10 U.S. sailors who were abducted at gunpoint by the Iranian military….

Iranian officials have now disclosed that officials have ordered that this $1.7 billion be allocated to the Islamic Republic’s military forces….

When asked by the Free Beacon on Thursday if it could comment on Iran’s use of these U.S. funds, the State Department declined to take a stance.

“We would refer you to the Iranian government to address questions about its budget,” a State Department official told the Free Beacon.

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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 10:40 am

    “We would refer you to the Iranian government to address questions about its budget,” a State Department official told the Free Beacon.

    Nice deflection. And by “nice” I mean “terrible”.

    • Keys says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 3:40 pm

      Right, Angemon. It’s the usual Obama Administration stone-walling, obfuscation, lack of transparency, incompetence,….. F U attitude.

  2. Moses says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 11:35 am

    With the smile on the ayatollahs face on the picture above he must be a very happy man indeed.He absolutely suckered Obama!!!!!!!

    • Hindu American says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 4:52 pm

      Please tell me that’s a selfie.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    The Supreme Leader’s got good reason for that big smile. He probably started smiling when he saw our next president Hillary coming down the pike as Sec’y of State to make offers, and his smile broadened as Prez Barack Hussein and Hillary’s war coward replacement made it clear that they’d do anything, risk anything, for a worthless piece of paper. That’s how Ivy League Morons think, if they do that.

  4. Hope says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 3:41 pm

    “How they must be laughing in Tehran.”

    Robert, I often think the same thing. Every time I see Obama or Kerry on my screen it makes my blood boil after what they have done to Israel, the US, and the free world.

  5. John in cheshire says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    Iran is long overdue a lesson on real politik. The smirking imams, mullahs and imams need to be put out of our misery. They still regard themselves as some kind of superior society because of the Persian empire. What they can’t come to terms with is 1. Just because a thugocracy flourished for a while doesn’t make it a civilisation and 2. The Roman Empire kicked the shit out of you. The iranians are not just has beens, they’re never were’s. And now they’ve hooked up to a loser religion. Ha ha what a joke.

  6. Dennis says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    He’s not supposed to laugh. Life is a struggle and nothing but hard work, Sacrifice and Prayer. Why waste money on improving the human condition of the people in Iran.

  7. TopDrifter says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 9:10 am

    It “was” taxpayer money and it “was” given to Iran and they, Iran, can spend it on anything they damn well want…

  8. Geppetto says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 2:16 pm

    If criminal justice and law enforcement in America had not been corrupted Obama and company would be tried for treason over this JCPOA with Iran and this agreement would never have been allowed to officially exist except as evidence of their guilt.

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