{"id":1683947,"date":"2022-10-11T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683947"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:41:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:41:48","slug":"irans-illicit-oil-sales-help-fuel-mass-military-buildup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irans-illicit-oil-sales-help-fuel-mass-military-buildup-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Illicit Oil Sales Help Fuel Mass Military Buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firans-illicit-oil-sales-help-fuel-mass-military-buildup-3%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683947&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration\u2019s lax enforcement of sanctions on Iran\u2019s illicit oil trade has allowed the hardline regime to infuse more than $15 billion into its military and terrorist proxies during the past two years, according to analysis by a watchdog group.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian military spending significantly jumped in 2022 as the regime got more access to cash through its multibillion-dollar trade in illicit oil\u2014cash that made its way to the regime as a result of the Biden administration\u2019s decision not to enforce U.S. sanctions, according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a watchdog group that tracks the regime\u2019s oil sales and military spending.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com\/blog\/analysis-of-iranian-oil-sales-under-president-trump-vs-president-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by UANI and an open source military spending database, has allocated $10.5 billion this year for its military and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a paramilitary fighting force that backs terrorist groups across the region. That number, which jumped from $4.5 billion in 2021, comes after the regime took in some $43 billion in funds from illicit oil sales, primarily to China. This cash is fueling Iran\u2019s regional terror enterprise, as well as its crackdown at home on a growing protest movement that threatens to topple the hardline regime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once it became clear that the Biden administration would not enforce sanctions as strictly as the Trump administration, the Iranian government drastically increased its military spending,&#8221; according to UANI\u2019s latest analysis. &#8220;These revenue changes have led to an increase in the Iranian government\u2019s military spending, which includes outlays to its terrorist proxies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran, the watchdog group concluded, became &#8220;substantially richer over Biden\u2019s first year in office\u2014partly due to high oil prices but also due to the increased export volumes.&#8221; Iran sold $30.09 billion worth of oil in 2021, when Biden entered office, and that number rose to $43 billion this year. Most of these sales were to China, Syria, and Venezuela. It is a substantial increase from the $12.5 billion worth the country sold in 2020, when sanctions were still being strictly enforced.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts, UANI says, &#8220;generally agree that Iran was forced to reduce its support to Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Iraqi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s lax enforcement of sanctions on Iran\u2019s illicit oil trade has allowed the hardline regime to infuse more than $15 billion into its military and terrorist proxies during the past two years, according to analysis by a watchdog group.<br \/>\nThe post Iran\u2019s Illicit Oil Sales Help Fuel Mass Military Buildup appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1683954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}