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The $6 Billion Is Only a Small Part of Biden’s Support for Jihadist Iran

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event in Fort Liberty, N.C., June 9, 2023.

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Here’s another one for the “They Think We’re Idiots” file: The Biden administration’s claim that the $6 billion it just caused to be released to jihadist Iran had nothing to do with the unspeakable attack against Israel over the weekend by Iran’s proxy, Hamas, which is well known by Biden officials to be funded and directed by Iran.

Let’s put aside the least surprising news in the history of news, namely, the Wall Street Journal’s report that Iran’s armed forces — in particular, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a U.S.-designated international terrorist organization — have spent the last several weeks collaborating with Hamas in the planning of Saturday’s attack, which Iran finally green-lighted last week (i.e., only after the Biden administration released the $6 billion for Iran’s benefit to Qatar, which also funds Hamas and harbors Hamas’s leadership). To repeat what I related on Saturday, Biden’s own State Department has acknowledged that Iran has “continued providing weapons systems and other support to Hamas and other U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist groups,” in its most recently published findings about international terrorism.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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