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Kerry on Obama administration’s $1,700,000,000 payment to Iran: “We gave them a little bit of money”

Jan 12, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Aid and comfort to the enemy, i.e., treason.

“Kerry on $1.7 Billion Payment to Iran: ‘We Gave Them a Little Bit of Money,’” by David Rutz, Washington Free Beacon, January 10, 2020:

Former secretary of state John Kerry, who along with his wife Teresa Heinz is estimated to be worth $1 billion, on Friday referred to the $1.7 billion payment the United States made to Iran in 2016 as a “little bit of money.”

Discussing President Donald Trump’s claims that the Obama administration helped fund the Iranian regime’s terror initiatives, Kerry told CNN that the Obama administration saved American taxpayers from accruing interest by settling old debt when it did.

“We gave them a little bit of money that was released in that period of time, not as part of the nuclear arrangement,” Kerry said. “But the fact is the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] had all the money it wanted. The IRGC wasn’t starving at that point in time, and in fact, Iran owed billions upon billions of dollars. Most of that money went to pay off their debts and to facilitate their economic initiatives.”

Kerry admitted in 2016 that the billions in sanctions relief Iran got under the nuclear deal would go partly to financing terrorism.

“Money is fungible in any budget,” he said on Friday.

The Obama administration paid Iran $400 million, plus an additional $1.3 billion in interest from taxpayer funds, ostensibly to settle a dispute over military equipment Iran purchased but never received following the shah’s fall in 1979. Critics, however, described the payment as a “ransom” to secure the freedom of American hostages being held by the Tehran regime.

“Obama officials are the last people on earth who are pretending that the $1.7 billion wasn’t a ransom payment,” one foreign policy consultant who worked with Congress on the nuclear deal told the Washington Free Beacon at the time. “Everyone else knows what happened, which is that we rewarded Iranian hostage takers.”…

As part of the nuclear deal Kerry brokered, Iran received $150 billion in sanctions relief in the form of unfrozen assets held in banks around the globe. The U.S. Treasury Department estimated Iran had roughly $55 billion left over of that amount after fulfilling its other financial obligations, according to the Washington Post.

Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, backing such proxy groups as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip….

The United States and its allies also say Iran is responsible for bringing down a Ukrainian airliner with a surface-to-air missile it fired during its onslaught against Iraq, killing all 176 aboard.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    Kerry on Obama administration’s $1,700,000,000 payment to Iran: “We gave them a little bit of money”
    ……………………

    Unbelievable–what a clown Kerry is.

    How much terrorism and nuclear development does *$1.7 billion* buy?

    • Wellington says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 6:21 pm

      +1

    • Rob says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 6:57 pm

      Omar says of 9/1, ‘some people did something’. Tallys

    • Peter WF says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 9:20 pm

      Certainly wasn’t Kerry’s money.
      Tax payer’s money is so cheap!
      Would have been a lot of money if it had been his.

      • Glyn david says

        Jan 13, 2020 at 5:48 am

        Whats better than spending money…..spending other peoples money…

        • Del says

          Jan 13, 2020 at 2:00 pm

          Are Kerry, Klinton and Trudeau related? It’s not our money, it’s theirs.

    • Norger says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 9:25 pm

      Indeed. The 9/11 plot reported cost ~500k

      • mortimer says

        Jan 12, 2020 at 11:05 pm

        Can Kerry’s word on anything be trusted after that understatement?

    • Robert_k says

      Jan 13, 2020 at 2:43 am

      To a Billionaire 1.7 Billion is a “little money “.

      • Robert_k says

        Jan 13, 2020 at 2:47 am

        To a Billionaire 1.7 billion is “little bit of money”.

        • Giacomo Latta says

          Jan 13, 2020 at 9:17 am

          And yet, a hundred dollars or so to clear the snow in front of his house is just too much.

    • owensgate says

      Jan 13, 2020 at 9:57 am

      Certainly enough to buy one or two off-the-shelf Nukes from NK, including shipping and handling. NK needs the cash, and Iran “needs” the “Fist-of-allah”. A win-win for them, and the REAL “Existential Threat” for the rest of Creation, not “Climate Change” or “Environmental Racism”, whatever joke THAT is…

    • kathryn kirk says

      Jan 13, 2020 at 2:19 pm

      He is something much worse than a clown.

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Jan 13, 2020 at 8:43 pm

      LITTLE BIT!!! In what universe is 1.7 billion of anything a little bit???

  2. RichardL says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 5:39 pm

    It is treason, and I have no idea why half of the country doesn’t agree.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 11:07 pm

      Globalism is a doctrine of mixing the world up by destroying national identities, and they use Islam as the tool to demolish resistance to change.

      Thus, the Globalists refuse to criticize Islam when it is obviously to blame for 90% of the terrorism today.

      • J D.S says

        Jan 13, 2020 at 10:06 am

        Money is the catalyst for terrorism and Iran “got a bit of money” so I suppose we will only get a bit of terrorism……buy a lot of Heinz products and add to Kerry’s pocketbook.

  3. Gamzu says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    Some people paid something.

    • Battle says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 8:16 pm

      Benghazi. Never Forget.

    • Norger says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 10:56 pm

      @Gamzu

      😁😁😁

      • mortimer says

        Jan 12, 2020 at 11:19 pm

        + 1

  4. Thomas Richard says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    Just another traitor that would look good in an orange jumpsuit!

    • Terry Gain says

      Jan 13, 2020 at 10:13 am

      Kerry would look better before a firing squad. 50 years of treason is enough.

  5. Wellington says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Kerry, as much as Obama, serves as the face of the Democratic Party of today.

    But wait. There is an update here and it is this: Even Kerry, Obama, Biden, et al. are not quite woke enough for AOC’s and Omar’s purposes. So, this “face” is fading fast and being replaced by a new “face” that is even loonier and stupider (and more traitorous) than the old Kerry, Obama, et al. “face.”

    Ah, it’s a puzzlement all right. And it is also an assault on, let’s see here, common sense, the Constitution, freedom, properly identifying evil, equality under the law, et al. And if you have any doubt left, well then, just visualize Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler as the “trinity” protecting the American Republic. See what I mean?

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 7:16 pm

      Wellington says,

      …”just visualize Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler as the “trinity” protecting the American Republic.”

      Beyond horrific…

    • Infidel says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 8:38 pm

      Had AOC just been an Amazon hating Marxist, I could have stomached her. But aside from her racism as well as her endorsement of gender dysphoria, it’s her handing over to her Muslimah comrades Ilhan & Rashida the entire Democrat policy towards Muslim countries that’s nauseating. If they ever come to power, the US would end up alienating a whole lot of countries battling Jihad – from Philippines to Israel. As it is, already Israel and India are on their 💩 list

      • Glyn david says

        Jan 13, 2020 at 6:03 am

        G’Day from rural South Australia….my local doctor is from Bangladesh…when she first came to town I asked her where she was from & she told me & she asked if I had ever heard much about her country…I said I have always really only ever heard how poor it was mainly from adverts on TV asking for money…I asked why she left & you guessed it… moslums…all full of hate,bedlam & turmoil…plus the usual rape & murder…her parents still live their …another shithole sadly…India & its neighbours have been putting up with the religion of peace for way too long…Its like the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1806 did not matter…Thomas Jefferson took no shit…

        • Infidel says

          Jan 13, 2020 at 8:56 am

          Glyn

          Was she a Muslimah, or one of the others – Hindu/Buddhist/Christian? After all, even Bangladesh Muslims happily infiltrate India, US and other countries, since their country is what you described – a 💩hole

    • commonsense says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 11:33 pm

      Exactly, Wellington

    • E T says

      Jan 13, 2020 at 9:05 am

      Someone threw away his war medals a long time ago, showed the world then he is not a patriot.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    Yes–even worse.

  7. Battle says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Benghazi. Never Forget.

  8. Infidel says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    Kerry is beyond stupid if he thinks that the money that Iran had to spend on shi’a jihad was so much that 1.7 billion was just a drop in the bucket

    It was funny watching him having to skype his way to his interviewer

    Also, to everybody who argues that that money belongs to Iran, no! It belongs to the Shah, and all the Iranians who fled the regime following 1979, and Teheran has no right to it

    • commonsense says

      Jan 12, 2020 at 11:35 pm

      Agreed, infidel.

  9. Buraq says

    Jan 12, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    As Ilhan Omar might say, “An American President gave some people some money.” Kerry’s a clown!

  10. J D.S says

    Jan 13, 2020 at 10:18 am

    Muhammad,……IF HE EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED…NO HISTORICAL PROOF THAT HE DID…stole much from the Old and New Testaments. He could neither read or write so everything was so scrambled no wonder the koran is such a foul book…or BOOKS there has been several of them..Which one is the right one according minimalist???Any way what does this have to do with Kerry?

    • J D.S says

      Jan 13, 2020 at 10:21 am

      Oops…should read…according Islamist….

  11. OLD GUY says

    Jan 13, 2020 at 11:13 am

    Mr Kerry since you think 1,700,000,000. is a small amount of money, how about sending me a million of the billion you have. That tiny million is nothing to you, but it dam sure would help my retirement life style. According to you it would be like me giving $10. to homeless person. I’ll be waiting to hear from you.

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