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Yes, OUR government does fund Iran. Read about the Iran Nuclear deal under Obama, we gave them billions, more than we have given Israel. https://www.brookings.
by misiti3780 9mo ago
Yes, OUR government does fund Iran. Read about the Iran Nuclear deal under Obama, we gave them billions, more than we have given Israel.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-united-states-iran-and-1-7-billion-sorting-out-the-details/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-united-states-iran-an...
https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-...
- nkozyra 9mo agoThat's an extraordinarily loose definition of "gave"
- germinalphrase 9mo agoTo add context: the funds were not “given” as one might give humanitarian funding. The funds were Iranian financial assets that were frozen after the Iranian Revolution, accrued interest over the subsequent decades, and were returned as part of a legal settlement. I stake no position on whether this should have happened, just providing more specific color to the situation.
- misiti3780 9mo agothat is true, but it was still a large sum of money given to an authoritarian murderous regime, was it not?