Isn’t treason giving aid and comfort to the enemy? How is this not treason? They’re chanting “Death to America” over in Tehran, and waging jihad around the region with money Old Joe is sending them.
“The Biden State Department maintains that Iran is only permitted to use the funds for humanitarian needs.”
They’re insulting the intelligence of the American people. Money is fungible. Even if the Islamic Republic uses the money only for humanitarian needs, that frees up $10 billion for other uses. The United States is funding the jihad against Israel on one hand while professing to oppose it on the other.
“Days After Trump’s Victory, Biden-Harris Admin Granted Iran $10 Billion in Sanctions Relief, Congressional Notice Shows,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, December 10, 2024:
The Biden-Harris administration waived sanctions on Iran three days after the November election, providing Tehran access upward of $10 billion in once-frozen funds, according to a copy of the non-public order transmitted to Congress and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined on November 8 that “it is in the national security interest of the United States” to waive mandatory economic sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring upward of $10 billion to Iran in electricity import payments.
The Biden-Harris administration has renewed the waiver repeatedly over the objections of congressional Republicans, who warned that the cash helped fuel terrorism and Iran’s war against Israel. In one case, the administration signed off on the sanctions relief one month after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
The most recent iteration of the waiver lifts sanctions for 120 days, at which time the incoming Trump administration will have to decide whether Tehran will continue receiving the relief.
Though the first Trump administration did green-light the same waiver—causing tension with some congressional Republicans—it narrowly tailored the waiver to restrict Iranian access to the cash. The Biden State Department tweaked the waiver last year to allow Tehran to convert the funds from Iraqi dinars to euros, then hold those euros in bank accounts based in Oman. Access to a widely traded currency like the euro enables Iran to more easily spend the cash in international markets. Under the first Trump administration, Iran had to keep the cash in an escrow account in Baghdad, making it more difficult to access.
The State Department confirmed last week that it issued the waiver.
“We remain committed to reducing Iran’s malign influence in the region,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters during a briefing. “Our viewpoint is that a stable, sovereign, and secure Iraq is critical to these efforts.”
The Biden State Department maintains that Iran is only permitted to use the funds for humanitarian needs, including medicines and other supplies. Republican critics argue that money is fungible, meaning that Tehran will have an easier time diverting its dwindling cash reserves to its regional terror proxies, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, should it have access to the sanctioned cash for other purposes….
Steve Deplorable says
Yes, disgusting, and (at best) is likely intended to make it more difficult for the Trump admin. Could also be worse, part of these freaks’ anti Israel crusade.
However…we do ourselves no favors with the constant use of language that mischaracterizes monies like these. If I understand correctly, this is the release of Iranian money held in US banks as a part of sanctions. To me this headline (as with so many on the subject, not just JW) implies it is US taxpayer money.
Let’s not be like the propagandists in the MSM. We have Truth and Right on our side; we don’t need to mislead.
bill says
What you say is correct in essence but short of waging war there is not much else that can be done to punish them. The Mullahs of Iran have delared multiple times and without a shadow of doubt they want to destroy USA, so why support them in any way? Anybody who does not get their malevolence is either brain damaged or permanently on dope. Blinken say it is the the US interest. How so? and Blinken has absolutely no control in how the Mullahs use their windfall.
As I have siad many times here the regime in Iran is the worst thing since Nazi Germany in the way it treats its citizens and finances terror throughout the ME. Leaving aside N.Korea and Afganistan of course
Spiro says
He’s adding and abetting an enemy by their own admission so yes he’s treaonist but whoe has the nerve to call it out
No one
Just another anti American act like so many that keep getting reelected
OLD GUY says
And who’s 10, billion dollars did Biden give away? Not the Governments money they don’t make any, It is the TAX PAYERS money Biden keeps giving away to foreign countries, WHY.
Whats in it for us the tax payer, or should I say what’s in it for the Biden’s?
Troybeam says
These last 4 years of Biden has been nothing but treason, lock up all democrats and republicans that sided with this admin in Gitmo, they pay for all legal matters not the American people.
OLD GUY says
Biden’s Administration has GIVEN $95 BILLION DOLLARS of American TAX dollars away. On top of which we the tax payer are paying interest on that money Biden borrowed to give away.
abu taleb says
Seems like the Democrats hate the conservative Americans more than the US enemy. It is a war against the conservative and Christianity.
Walter Sieruk says
That duology of treasonous wickedness , Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, keep on deliberately giving financial aid to America’s enemy even in their very last full month in power in Washington DC.
Likewise to continuing to fund that “mullah regime” of Iran they in their insidious evil are further harming the State of Israel and her citizens,For Iran supports and supplies both Hamas and Hezbollah with deadly weapons to murder the Jewish people of Israel .
Furthermore, by Biden and Harris , sending that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran an additional $10,000,000 that despicable twosome are helping those despots of Iran in their brutal cruel malicious murderous oppression of the Iranian people, and likewise stopping the freedom movement which the people of Iran are desperately attempting to achieve in Iran.
Those two villains keep on with their evil doings right unto the very end of their term.
John Hawkins says
And the people in North Carolina are still living in tents. It is apparent that this government cares more for people in other countries than our own. Even with Trump as president the government will still send money overseas to protect our freedom. Someone said recently we know there are no other people in the universe because we are not sending them money. The American citizens always come up last in that catergory.
Hudders. says
Lord willing there will be a true reckoning soon.
Unless Biden pardons a whole host of those involved in these acts of evil enabling treasonous acts, then these shall be some form of severe justice coming down the line.
There simply has to be!
Funding terror through islamic arch agents of hell, Iran, though proxies & such is beyond forgiveness, justification, or excuse of any sorts.
Biden & his criminal cohorts work for the devil; there can be no other way to understand what they have been doing.
Please justice, be swift & true.
somehistory says
Hudders,
many of those whom speculation says biden will pardon, have said they will refuse the pardon. They don’t want to admit that they are guilty of any crimes.
But the law says that is not allowed.
And his son hunter, having been pardoned, can still be made to testify against ‘the big guy.’
Had biden commuted the sentence, he would not have to, but being pardoned leaves him open to questioning.
Perhaps a bunch of ‘pardons’ would yield some satisfaction.
Hudders. says
I hope they do not get a pardon @SH my friend, then perchance we see them get the payback they rightly deserve for their evil treason.
The blood on their grasping claw like hands is beyond measure……
somehistory says
That’s all true Hudders.
The discussion the lawyer had with Beck was that if biden pardons them, they cannot refuse to be pardoned….and being pardoned means they committed crimes.
However, if they have any influence on biden, they may ask that he not pardon them and they can take their chances with being arrested, charged and tried.
Sen Rand Paul wants a shot at fauci, but realizes that if he is pardoned, it will mean that he truly is guilty of all of the things that happened with the covid, lives lost, lockdowns, lost businesses, etc.
Only about a month left for biden to pardon whomever he chooses….we’ll have to wait and see.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Everybody who works in the current State Department needs to be not merely fired, but arrested on January 21st for treason, and tried accordingly. Exclude Biden, but crack down heavily on everybody in decision making in State, including Blinken and Sullivan
We need to make examples of such traitors so that they will never dare subvert the US in future
St Croix says
The shadow gov’t is determined to disgrace America in every possible way while they still can. They desire the extermination of Israel, all the time pretending they support them. Calling for a two-state solution means they want the Jews dead.
They also hate Christianity.
Common denominator? The Bible. With those ethical codes that have made the Western nations moral in ways that would not otherwise have been. Our ethical basis is not Greek or Roman, certainly not! Those slave-based cultures where women were often seen as no better than they are regarded in Islam, are not the basis for individual value and rights!
It is galling to the power elites, in whatever country, that people who are so far beneath them should have RIGHTS and worth, because they are made in the image of God! Oh, cringe cringe cringe!
Treason is the word being used, and it fits. Man, what a slap in the face. Is this their final coup de grace? I doubt it. I’m sure they have more dastardly blows planned.
May their evil blueprints go up in smoke!
soda says
I was brainwashed as a Leftist like the Democrats were…I broke away from their group-think during university, when I decided to read center-right thinkers and not just ‘Liberal’ writers…otherwise I might’ve still seen Marx and Noam Chomsky as heroes.
In Lefty sociology classes, the big bad wolf is the ‘US Empire’ and the military-industrial complex. They blame all the faults of the world on Imperialism and Colonialism. If Muslims are blowing each other up, we made them do it somehow.
I’d say I’m more Centrist in my views today-Lefties got some issues right and Conservatives are right on other things.
So yes I agree with Robert, giving money to terrorist regimes is treason. People who are astute on Iran told us that with all the sanctions and other pressure we put on Iran they were very close to collapse.
What the Dems did was release the pressure and made them flush with cash…so a lot of the terrorism recently like Oct 7 is because of the Dems who funded Iran and who then paid Hamas/Hezb to attack Israel.
I’ve been watching Islam since 9/11….and it’s become blatantly obvious to me (and I’m sure those who have been doing the same), that the people in Syria, the people in Gaza, the pro-Palestinians in Europe, the Iranians, etc….are all the same.
While Assad fell, and we’re only learning now how incredibly evil and barbaric his regime was, the people who are now taking over are just as evil…this is Islam, this is what it does.
You take a Christian, Jew, Atheist, Hindu, Buddhist from anywhere in the world and have a tea with him and you’ll get the same type of interesting and fun chat with him as you would with someone from your own city.
When it comes to a Muslim man in an Islamic state, if you tried to have a tea with him, you might find yourself threatened with death if you refuse to convert.
Bottom line here is, Islam is an evil ideology. It’s been destroying civilizations for 1400 years. That is not to say there aren’t a minority of good Muslims, I’ve known some…but like Nazism, most of them are the enemy (despite some good Germans).
As I mentioned in another post, we need to take off the kid gloves when it comes to Lefties…I hope when Trump takes power, he becomes like Netanyahu and either ignores Leftists and do what’s needed to be done, or actively starts going to war against them also…meaning those who undermine his admin, those caught leaking info to the enemy, those working against him in favor of Islam, those funding terrorists, should be prosecuted and jailed.
I’ll reiterate, the vast majority of Muslims are from the same mind-hive, they’re fascists and they’re the enemy. If Trump leads the way to deport Muslims and ban them from entry and also criminalize Islam, I’m sure other western and free nations will do the same…only then can we avoid WW3 or Islamification.
Michael Edgar says
Why are American taxpayers funding a hostile alien regime? It’s not Biden’s money, it’s \ours
OLD GUY says
You would think Congress could stop this from happening. How can the President give away money we don’t have. And WHO is earning interest on the $ 1BILLION DOLLARS we have to barrow for this give away.
St Croix says
100%
Skeptiker says
Ein Lob den amerikanischen Wählern. Sie sind wahrhaft intelligenter als die Akteure der sogenannten politischen “Elite”. Ich bin der Meinung, dass auch schon vor 4 Jahren der Wähler kein Interesse an einer Regierung BIDEN/HARRIS, also einer Neuauflage der OBAMA Administration, hatte und nur durch Manipulation der Wahlergebnisse mit Hilfe von Big-Tech und dem Deep-State diese Clique bei den Demokraten an die Macht gelangen konnte.
Dick Tracy says
The relevant law:
‘Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.’
Relevant commentary (https://uclawreview.org/2018/10/15/treason-what-is-it/ ):
‘The second type of treason (i.e. adherence to the enemy) is slightly more complicated and contains two requirements. First, the person must give aid or comfort to an enemy of the U.S. Second, that person must give aid or comfort in adherence to the enemy. Adherence to the enemy requires an “intent to betray” the U.S.[5] An enemy, for purposes of the treason clause, is defined as only “subjects of a foreign power in a state of open hostility” towards the U.S.[6] Finally, the crime of treason by aiding an enemy can only be committed during a time of war.[‘
So where’s the war?
So where’s the open hostility? Maybe in Yemen, but not in Iran. This country openly and directly fights Israel, but not the US.
So who’s levying war against the US? Iran, Biden?
So who adheres to their enemies? Biden?
Where’s the intent to betray?
Hmmm, not too sure about that. You may disagree with what Biden squanders your money on (I do and vehemently so), but it’s not treason, Sir. Not yet. There is no war going on between Iran and the US. Full stop.
St Croix says
America basically supports Iran. Indirectly, the U.S. supports the obliteration of Israel. They are doing as Iran does, and it’s backhanded, deceitful.
The “hostility” factor is not there in the current Admin. Is Iran an “enemy” in their view. It seems not. A threat? Yes, it seems so, as per what Kamala said. Does she believe it? Do their actions support that? Throwing money at a “threat”, nay, the BIGGEST threat to American security, means what, exactly? That we kinda like you, though you are our biggest threat? Hmmm.
Not in an open war. When you get proxies to “deliver your war” it’s war via an arm’s length strategy.
Is it treason to support them? Not with the attitude of the current administration, who seems to be very unclear about the relationship, but it’s not open hostility. Yes, Iran says “Death to America” all the time. But they don’t do much about it directly at this point. And in their weakened state, they might not. But the money sure is going to come in handy!
As for the being in a state of “war”, the definition for treason seems to have been and/or being in a state of war. But now treason MUST include the active hostility/war clause. Was this an amendment to the original–as I am understanding it?
somehistory says
Iran has stated its desire to destroy the U.S. as in “Death to the U.S.” and Iran is at war with Israel.
Mr. Netanyahu said yesterday in a court of law, that bo was demanding, due to his desire for iran to succeed, on him to stop things he was doing for Israel.
Since bo took iran’s side, took the side of the gazans (hamas) and has been funding them directly when he was the pretender, and now while he directs the current pretender, this is, indeed Treason.
somehistory says
Open Source Intel on X: “WATCH⚡️ Iranian Drones Launching from U.S. Coast, Congressman says
Treason.
Walter Sieruk says
On the topic of Iran and that treasonous, traitorous villain Joe Biden, along with Kamala Harris, are again exposing just how horrendously terrible fiends First they provide that l Islamic regime of Iran to thirty-one billion. Then later , just this month, they supply that anti-America and anti-Israel hostile Islamic tyranny with an additional $10,000,000.
For Biden is either an incompetent feeble -minded fool or a traitorous treasonous villain.
Which even the case with him, Biden by giving away everything to those tyrants of that Islamic regime of Iran who such spiteful enemies of the United States that they publicly refer to her as “the Great Satan”
Likewise brainwash and then incite the Iranian people to chant, repeatedly “Death to America” reveals much about the sinister and insidious character of subversive creepy old Joe.
Therefore Biden by appeasing supporting and further upholding that anti-American vicious and hostile “mullah regime” has to be a very evil, un-American very despicable and dangerous man.
Leonidas says
Islsm is a global threat. Fortunately
Islam ( submission)will collapse ,like USSR in 1989,if we DENOUNCE PSEUDO PROPHET MUHAMMAD,who according to his biography( Sira) and traditions( Hadith) was a pedophile( wife Aisha was 9 yo), rapist, murderer, bandit (keeping20% of the booty for himself),liar and sex-slave trader and also LIBERATE THE MUSLIM WOMEN from barbaric Sharia Law.The Koran states women are dumb, less intelligent than men,wives must be beaten for disobedience by their hudbands ,all women will go to hell unless in the last day their husband says he was pleased with her and all women must hide their curves and wear burkas ,so that men will not be aroused to rape them.Islam is a misogynistic ,violent , imperialist political ideology of Arab male supremacy ISLAMOFASCISM(~70%), DISGUISED AS A RELIGION(~ 30%) that strives through violent Jihad and soft cultural Jihad of immigration ( dawa)to subjugate the World.Jihadists are promised, if killed battling infidels-kafirs,) they will go to Paradise to enjoy 72 virgins ,taking along 70 of their relatives regardless of their sins!Withdraw from UN MIGRANT COMPACT ,that falsely claims immigration is a Human Right expecting Western countries to accept and provide for an endless number of muslim illegal immigrants ,thus islamizing them. Muslim “refugees “should stay in Turkey or vast rich Saudi Arabia ,until they can return to their countries.We must denounce islamic Sharia (=way)law of blasphemer,apostate ,homosexual , adulterer and hypocrite executions,misogyny,honor killings by stoning,hand amputations for theft,child brides,girls exclusion from schools,halal meat from tortured animals,clitorectomies,circumcisions,subjugation and segregation of women,burkas and Sharia banning of short skirts,bikinis,dancing,singing,painting ,sculptures of people,dogs,pork,alcohol and beauty contests .Demand gender equality for ALL muslim women.Punish severely those that kill apostates from Islam,blasphemers,adulterers or muslim hypocrites.Islam is incompatible with our freedom of speech, gender equality, values,way of life, Human Rights,
Ron Kelmell says
Where’s the outrage from the Republicans? Or was this (if true) done without any confirming authorization, Joe wrote a personal check?