Deputy Secretary of State Blinken: Yeah, Iran's probably going to use some of that cash for terrorism

At this point, it's not that hard to find people willing to admit that Obama's massive transfer of cash to Iran will probably end up supporting terrorists. It's really just common sense. They're a state sponsor of terrorism - the slaughter of innocents designed to instill fear - and we sent them $1.7 Billion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how that scenario is going to play out. ...It just takes someone slightly smarter than Barack Obama and John Kerry.

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Of course they're going to use that money to fund terrorism. It's "what they do" and, now, the United States has become their enabler. We are the de facto sponsors of terrorism, because we know exactly where at least some of that cash will end up. Plenty of other Obama administration luminaries have admitted as much but, just in case you need more evidence, here's Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken. He's refusing to say that the money won't go to terrorism, but he does contend that "most" of it is going into Iran's economy. He knows this because “We see what they’re saying. We see how they are spending it and what they’ve told us." Super...

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In case you didn't hear that, Blinken says:

"...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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Asked if he could guarantee that U.S. cash wouldn't end up funding Islamic Jihadists, Blinken was clear:

“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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