IRAN SPENDS $1.7 BILLION IN U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDS TO BOOST ITS MILITARY
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/iran-spends-1-7-billion-in-u-s-taxpayer-funds-to-boost-its-military; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
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 civilians. All of this is courtesy Barack Obama and John Kerry. How they must be laughing in Tehran.
“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.
