(thetrumpet) The question above could be asked differently, as CNBC did on Thursday. In an interview with United States Secretary of State John Kerry about the Iran nuclear deal and the money the Islamic Republic will receive from sanctions relief, a CNBC reporter asked: “Do you believe that any of that [money will end] up in the hands of terrorists?”
“I think that some of it will end up in the hands of the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] or other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists,” Secretary Kerry responded.
Notice how vague Kerry was about which entities are terrorists and who labeled them terrorists. Yet every year, his State Department produces the “Country Reports on Terrorism,” which clearly state that Iran sponsors terrorism through the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, al Qaeda and various Shiite militia in Iraq and Syria.
Some observers estimated that the money Iran will receive in sanctions relief will be somewhere between $100-$150 billion. But Kerry estimated that after Iran settles its debts, it will be left with around $55 billion.
Earlier in the day, Secretary Kerry said that because of all the internal demands in Iran to develop the country, “there is no way they can succeed in what they want to do if they are very busy funding a lot of terrorism.” Kerry makes it sound like the Iranian regime—its mullahs and the ayatollah—wants to help the people of Iran.
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