By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--September 7, 2016
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"...here’s what’s going on. We achieved a nuclear deal with Iran to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons. That’s made us safer. It made countries around the world safer. Part of that involved lifting sanctions on Iran and that freed up money that had been frozen around the world that Iran had in bank accounts that it couldn’t bring back to Iran. Now as part of the deal Iran is bringing back some of that money. But the overwhelming majority of that money is going into their economy, which is in dire straits.”We know the money is "going to their economy" because...ummmm...we just do, ok?
“We know. We’ve seen it. We see what they’re saying. We see how they are spending it and what they’ve told us. But also what we see is that instead of going to the military, the money is being poured back into the economy because this is an economy that was suffering terribly.”
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“We can’t say that not one single dollar will go there. What we can say based on what we’ve seen so far is that virtually all of it is going into the economy, not the military."For the record: Even if Blinken is right - and there's absolutely no way to confirm that he is - the word "virtually" is a synonym for "pretty much." So the best case scenario being offered by the Deputy Secretary of State is that "most" of Iran's massive cash windfall will not go to terrorism. "Most." I'm sure it will come as great comfort to Iran's future victims that "only a little" United States cash will be spent killing them.
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