Oct. 10, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| For one, Antony Blinken said here that no U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved in the attack on Israel. | |
| And that is technically true. | |
| However, it's technically true because that six billion dollars was not U.S. tax money. | |
| It was Iranian oil revenues that were frozen by the U.S. over in South Korea. | |
| And so if you release the funds and Iran uses those funds for terrorism, you can still claim that no U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved. | |
| But that does not mean that the six billion dollars were not involved. | |
| Regardless, though, the other point that the State Department is failing to consider when making such broad sort of statements is that money is fungible. | |
| It can easily move from one pocket to another. | |
| And so, just as an example, the Iranian regime now knows that they have $6 billion waiting for them in escrow over in Qatar to be used on things like food, medicine, building schools, and so on. |
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