After all the recent events in the Middle East it’s ever harder to comprehend why we made this deal.
After all the recent events in the Middle East it’s ever harder to comprehend why we made this deal. The world can’t survive this weak administration. Why do democrats have this sick desire to fund hostile actors across the world? It appears the “critics of the deal” were correct in their assumptions. Why would we trust lyres, this entire interview is a lie, from how the US prisoners were treated to their role in the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his government will decide how it will spend $6 billion in previously frozen funds due to be released in a prisoner exchange agreement with the U.S., telling NBC News’ Lester Holt that the money will be spent "wherever we need it."
Under the arrangement, Tehran will be granted access to the roughly $6 billion in Iranian oil revenues that were blocked in South Korean banks because of U.S. sanctions. But U.S. officials say Qatar’s central bank will oversee the funds and Iran will be permitted to use the money only for humanitarian purposes in accordance with U.S. sanctions.
The State Department said the U.S. could freeze the released funds again if Iran tried to spend the money in violation of U.S. sanctions.
Critics of the deal argue that by giving Iran access to the blocked funds, the Biden administration is allowing Tehran to free up other money that it could use to buy weapons or back proxies in the Mideast.
In the interview, Raisi said that Iran would have “authority” over how the funds would be spent. “This money belongs to the Iranian people, the Iranian government, so the Islamic Republic of Iran will decide what to do with this money,” he said
Asked if the money would be used for other purposes apart from humanitarian needs, Raisi said: “Humanitarian means whatever the Iranian people needs, so this money will be budgeted for those needs, and the needs of the Iranian people will be decided and determined by the Iranian government.”
The prisoner exchange calls for the release of five American citizens held in Iran in return for five Iranians under detention in the U.S., and also grants Tehran access to the $6 billion in oil revenues that have been blocked.
Although Raisi said the five American prisoners were well, their families say they have been subject to lengthy interrogations and mistreatment. Siamak Namazi, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2015, has said he was held in solitary confinement for the first 27 months of his incarceration. Babak Namazi, his brother, has said that Namazi was subject to beatings.
Moscow and Tehran have forged stronger military and economic ties as the U.S. and Europe have sanctioned both countries. And the U.S., Ukraine and European governments say Iran has provided armed Shahed drones to Russia, which uses them to strike civilian buildings and infrastructure in Ukraine.
In presentations to foreign government officials and reporters, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency analysts have displayed remnants of Iranian drones they say were found in Ukraine, as well as a largely intact drone recovered from an Iranian air attack in Iraq’s Kurdish region. The two drones recovered in Ukraine and Iraq looked identical, with the same triangular design, wingspan, fiberglass fuselage and rudimentary propeller motor at the rear.
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