{"id":2029167,"date":"2023-09-12T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despicable-biden-deal-announced-on-9-11-radical-islamic-country-is-receiving-6-billion-in-funds\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:34:44","slug":"despicable-biden-deal-announced-on-9-11-radical-islamic-country-is-receiving-6-billion-in-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despicable-biden-deal-announced-on-9-11-radical-islamic-country-is-receiving-6-billion-in-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Controversial 9\/11 Deal: $6 Billion to Radical Islamic Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fdespicable-biden-deal-announced-on-9-11-radical-islamic-country-is-receiving-6-billion-in-funds%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=2029167&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--><h2>In another example of the Biden administration doubling down on the worst aspects of the Obama\u2062 administration<\/h2>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress on Monday about his approval to transfer of\u200b $6 billion in funds to Iran in exchange \u2062for\u2063 five Americans being held captive in the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>To add insult to injury,\u2063 the administration will also be releasing five Iranian \u2064citizens from U.S. prisons as part of the \u200bexchange.<\/p>\n<p>So,\u2062 Iran gets $6 \u2062billion in cash\u2064 and its five citizens; the U.S. gets five Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken signed off on the deal last week\u200b that will give a blanket waiver to international banks to\u200c transfer Iranian funds from South Korea \u200bto \u2063Qatar without fear\u2063 of\u200b U.S. sanctions being imposed, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-iran-prisoners-blinken-3e834df0a845ef2cc5c52af14598c66f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u200b Associated Press<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u200dthe Biden administration did not inform Congress of the waiver\u2062 decision until Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks, according \u2062to the notification obtained by the AP.<\/p>\n<p>To facilitate\u2062 the release of five American citizens, \u201cthe United States has committed to release five Iranian nationals currently held in the United States and to permit the transfer of approximately $6 billion in restricted Iranian funds held in (South Korea) to restricted accounts in Qatar, \u200cwhere the funds will be available only for humanitarian trade,\u201d Blinken\u200b wrote in the notification to Congress, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despicable-biden-deal-announced-on-9-11-radical-islamic-country-is-receiving-6-billion-in-funds\/\" title=\"Biden's Controversial 9\/11 Deal:  Billion to Radical Islamic Nation\">deal drew \u2064scathing criticism<\/a> from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Former President \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-attacks-barack-president-obama-paid-for-hostages-we-didnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> posted\u2064 on Truth \u200cSocial, \u201cCan you believe that\u200d Crooked Joe Biden is giving $6 Billion\u2063 to the terrorist regime in Iran? That money \u200d [will] be used for terrorism all over the Middle \u200bEast, and,\u200c indeed, the World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incompetent FOOL \u200bis absolutely destroying America,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe had the audacity\u2063 to announce this terrible deal today, September 11th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo pay for hostages will lead\u2064 to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail against Americans across the globe. I freed many \u200bdozens of our people from various unfriendly countries and\u2063 never paid a dime!\u201d Trump \u200cwrote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sen. \u2064Tom Cotton of Arkansas posted\u2062 on X,\u2064 formerly Twitter, \u200c\u201cFirst \u200dJoe Biden \u200cused 9\/11 as an \u200dexcuse to\u2062 flee Afghanistan. \u200dNow he \u200ddesecrates\u200c this day by paying ransom to the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-failed-iran-nuclear-deal-closely-related-to-russias-war-on-ukraine\/\" title=\"Cotton: Failed Iran Nuclear Deal 'Closely Related' to Russia's War on Ukraine\">worst state sponsor<\/a> of terrorism. Shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First\u200c Joe\u2064 Biden used 9\/11 \u200bas an excuse to\u200c flee Afghanistan. \u2064Now\u2063 he desecrates this day by paying\u2062 ransom to\u200b the world\u2019s worst state sponsor of terrorism. Shameful. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hxTGe6wGEE\">https:\/\/t.co\/hxTGe6wGEE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom \u2062Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1701343133743698340?\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa argued that\u200b the money will go to fund Iran\u2019s radical\u200c Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident\u200b Biden\u200d is going through with his $6 \u2064BILLION payout to the IRGC and its proxies. This will only greenlight Iran\u2019s illicit actions and encourage further \u2062hostage \u2018diplomacy.\u2019 Biden\u2019s failed strategy of appeasement must end.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden \u2062is going\u2064 through with his $6 BILLION payout to the IRGC and its proxies.<\/p>\n<p>This will only greenlight\u2063 Iran\u2019s illicit actions and encourage further hostage\u200b \u201cdiplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s\u200c failed strategy of appeasement must end.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJoniErnst\/status\/1701338026478104895?\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow Iowan, Sen. \u200bChuck Grassley wrote,\u200b \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous \u200cfor US to be \u2063blackmailed into paying $6B for hostages which\u200b will help indirectly finance the\u2063 number 1 foreign\u2062 policy of Iran: terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast \u200dtime it \u200dwas $1.7B traded \u200dfor hostages next time\u2064 it will probably \u200dbe $10B the price keeps \u2062going up &#038; up,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s ridiculous for US to be blackmailed into\u200b paying $6B for\u200c hostages which will help indirectly finance the number \u200b1 foreign policy of Iran: terrorism \u200cLast time it was $1.7B traded for hostages next time it will probably be $10B the\u2064 price keeps going up &#038; up<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckGrassley\/status\/1701342981020680339?\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In January 2016, the Obama administration\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-attacks-barack-president-obama-paid-for-hostages-we-didnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">airlifted $400 million<\/a> in cash\u2064 to Iran at the same time four American hostages were released.<\/p>\n<p>One \u200dof the American hostages, Saeed \u2063Abedini, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RGiV98Z6Cv8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> the plane carrying himself and the other Americans was\u2063 not \u200dallowed to leave until another plane arrived first, which he understood to be transporting the pallets of cash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-sent-cash-to-iran-as-americans-were-freed-1470181874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> \u2062 reported in August 2016 the $400 million was the first installment of \u200ca $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration agreed to pay the Islamic\u2062 Republic from a judgment handed down at the international tribunal at The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran had paid the United States for military equipment never \u2064received due to the overthrow of the shah of\u200d Iran during the \u20631979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Obama \u2063explained \u200chis decision to authorize the payment in Jan. 17, 2016, remarks at the White\u200d House<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the \u200dnuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to\u200b resolve this dispute as well,\u201d he said, without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.<\/p>\n<p>When \u200cthe payment later became public, the \u2063Obama administration<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/iran-nuclear-talks\/400m-payment-iran-americans-freed-not-ransom-white-house-n622196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u200c denied<\/a> \u2064 there was \u200dany link between \u2063the payment and the release of hostages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-condemns-charges-against-pro-democracy-activists-in-hong-kong\/\" title=\"Secretary Of State Antony Blinken Condemns Charges Against Pro-Democracy Activists in Hong Kong\">\u2019ve made clear<\/a>, \u2063the negotiations\u2063 over the settlement of an outstanding claim\u2063 \u2026 were completely separate from the \u200bdiscussions about returning our\u2063 American citizens home,\u201d then-State Department spokesman John Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only were the \u200btwo negotiations separate, they were conducted\u2062 by different teams on each side, including, in the case of The Hague claims, by technical experts \u200dinvolved in \u200dthese \u200bnegotiations\u2062 for many years,\u201d he\u2063 added.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby has moved \u2062up from his Obama administration days. He now \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/05\/20\/president-biden-announces-john-kirby-as-nsc-coordinator-for-strategic-communications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has a position<\/a> in the Biden White House\u2064 as National Security Council\u200d coordinator for \u200bstrategic communications.<\/p>\n<p>In another \u200cbrilliant move, National Security Council spokeswoman \u200dAdrienne Watson<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tone-deaf-biden-national-security-official-roasted-touting-saudi-arabia-deal-9-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> praised Saudi Arabia<\/a> on the anniversary of 9\/11 for\u2064 committing $20\u200d billion to Biden\u2019s \u201csignature\u2064 initiative,\u201d the Partnership for Global Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen of \u2063the <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/09\/11\/september-11-saudi-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19 al Qaeda hijackers<\/a> on 9\/11 \u2063were Saudi \u2063nationals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">was there literally no other day \u200byou could announce this?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Jackson  (@abigailmarone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abigailmarone\/status\/1701231854936883415?\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s domestic or foreign policy, President\u200d Joe Biden appears committed to taking the worst aspects of the Obama administration and putting those policies \u200don steroids now.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/despicable-biden-deal-announced-9-11-radical-islamic-country-receiving-6-billion-funds\/\">Despicable Biden Deal Announced on 9\/11 &#8211; Radical Islamic Country Is Receiving $6 Billion\u200c in Funds<\/a> appeared first \u200don \u2062 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, Secretary Blinken justified the decision by claiming it was necessary to uphold the nuclear deal. This move not only rewards a hostile regime but also undermines American interests and security. 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