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> the 'rebels' they funded with their payment to Iran back in 2015 What rebels were funded with a payment to Iran? What are you talking about?
by verall 6y ago
> the 'rebels' they funded with their payment to Iran back in 2015
What rebels were funded with a payment to Iran? What are you talking about?
- simonh 6y agoThe US had a very long running court case with Iran over non-delivery of weapons bought by the Shah. In international law, the US was still on the hook. There was a panel of US, Iranian and neutral judges adjudicating it and it looked certain they would eventually find for Iran. The Obama administration made a deal to pay off Iran in order to avoid potentially massive interest payments running since the 1970s. Iran supports the Houthis in Yemen, therefore Obama funded the Houthis. Presumably the weapons Reagan sold to Iran in the Iran Contra scandal are too out of date to be useful to the Houthis.
- cheaprentalyeti 6y agoAccording to news reports the Syrian faction bombed by Biden this weekend were backed by the Iranians, who have been funding the conflict in Syria and who we paid a large amount of money to in 2015.