Epoch Times - $6 Billion Iran Deal 🇮🇷
Aired: 2023-10-10
Duration: 00:47

[00:00:00]  For one, Antony Blinken said here that no U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved in the attack on Israel.
[00:00:05]  And that is technically true.
[00:00:07]  However, it's technically true because that six billion dollars was not U.S. tax money.
[00:00:12]  It was Iranian oil revenues that were frozen by the U.S. over in South Korea.
[00:00:16]  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.
[00:00:22]  But that does not mean that the six billion dollars were not involved.
[00:00:26]  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.
[00:00:34]  It can easily move from one pocket to another.
[00:00:36]  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.