Paying Villainy
Why do we pay our own enemies? Why do we do things to make them stronger?
Adam Kredo, national security correspondent for the Washington Free Beacon, reports on the sort of stuff our media otherwise won’t.
The Biden administration on Tuesday reapproved a sanctions waiver that will allow Iran to access upward of $10 billion in frozen assets, the State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.
The details are a little confusing, since the money involved is technically locked up in Iraq by U.S. foreign policy, and because it entailed payments Iraq was to make for Iranian electricity. But the fact is that the Iranian government has as its primary objective the spread of Islamic revolution, and for that it needs money. This recognition is why sanctions were emplaced against the Iranian government in the first place.
Undeterred by the fungibility of billions of dollars, the Biden administration has returned to the policy of easing sanctions on the Iranian regime in the hopes that kindness will change their minds about us. This isn’t a case of easing sanctions in return for better behavior, but rather easing sanctions in the hopes that a reward will inspire better behavior. Under what theory of human psychology this type of action is supposed to work is anyone’s guess.
The money set free by sanctions relief frees other money that the Iranian mullah regime can use to pursue its aim of supporting Hamas, Hizbollah, and other non-state terrorist entities as they assault Israel to increase the number of Jews murdered.
While Iran can only use the funds related to the sanctions waiver for the purchase of humanitarian goods, critics of the administration's policy argue that by freeing up this cash, Iran can allocate other financial resources to its global terrorism operation, which has been in overdrive since Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel. Analysts place the amount of cash accessible by Iran at upward of $10 billion, as the Free Beacon first reported on Monday.
Annoyingly, these are the sorts of consequential events that our media ignore, presumably because the imbecilic clown show of our domestic politics gets more clicks and likes on social media. Then one day in the future, we will awaken to news that there has been another surprise attack launched against us, our friends, and our interests by our enemies. And who could have ever foreseen such a tragedy? No one who wasn’t looking.
The “Won’t you be my friend?” approach to Iran is a proven winner.
Biden is 81 today. I’m sure there will be a big celebratory event put on by his team with max press coverage.