A FEW HUNDRED REASONS WHY LAWYER-POLITICIANS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM SEEKING ELECTIVE OFFICE:
MOST ARE SOCIOPATHS AND BRIBES SUCKING GAMERS OF THE LAW ALL ARE DESPERATE PARASITES EAGER TO GET AT THE MONEY NO MATTER ANYTHING!
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Joebama Gump
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken told lawmakers late last week that the United States will not stop Russia from cashing in on a $10 billion contract to build out portions of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Blinken, in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, confirmed for the first time publicly that the Biden administration will not stand in the way of Russia-Iran nuclear cooperation. Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) asked Blinken to provide assurances that sanctions on both Iran and Russia remain in place as long as Moscow continues its unprovoked war in Ukraine.
Blinken said any sanctions lifted as part of a new nuclear deal will be separate from the United States' current pressure campaign on Russia, meaning that the $10 billion contract between Tehran and Moscow will be permitted to go through.
"The actions that Russia would take pursuant to the agreement, if there is a return to the agreement, would not be in contravention of the sanctions imposed on Russia for its actions in Ukraine," Blinken said.
As part of the ongoing negotiations with Iran on a revamped nuclear deal—which are being led by Russia on the United States' behalf—the Biden administration committed to waive sanctions preventing Tehran from paying Moscow at least $10 billion to construct nuclear reactors in the country. Republican lawmakers say the concession undermines the international community’s efforts to isolate Russia in response to its ongoing war in Ukraine.
Issa, in comment to the Free Beacon following Blinken’s testimony, said, "The Biden administration is so desperate for a deal with Iran they’ll broker a $10 billion payoff to Russia and waive their own sanctions to make it happen."
The Biden administration’s reliance on Russia to conduct diplomacy with Iran has rankled Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress who want to see Moscow fully iced out from the international community for its war crimes in Ukraine.
Rosatom, a top Russian state-controlled energy firm, is poised to construct several nuclear projects for Iran that were sanctioned by the Trump administration. The United States waived sanctions on these projects earlier this year as part of a series of concessions meant to entice Iran back into a nuclear agreement.
The State Department has made clear that it will not move to sanction these projects as part of a new nuclear deal.
"We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in March.
How the Biden Admin Is Protecting Syria’s Assad From Sanctions
Congressional report on Assad finances 'late, lackadaisical, riddled with errors'
The Biden administration is trying to shield Syrian president Bashar al Assad from sanctions via a congressionally mandated report, according to lawmakers who say it is "late, lackadaisical, and riddled with errors."
The State Department was required on Tuesday to issue a report to Congress detailing the Syrian dictator’s financial empire but failed to meet that deadline. After requests for information on the report from the Washington Free Beacon and a pressure campaign from Republican foreign policy leaders, the State Department posted the report late Thursday.
The final report contained several errors, little-to-no new information about Assad’s empire, and left Republican lawmakers livid over what they say is the Biden administration’s bid to withhold critical information that could help Congress craft sanctions on Assad’s family and financial allies, including his benefactors in Iran.
Prior to the report's release, Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee told the Free Beacon that the Biden administration was withholding the report in order to avoid irritating Iran amid negotiations over a new nuclear agreement. They expected the report, which was legally mandated in bipartisan legislation passed last year, to provide details on Assad that would help Congress target the illicit financial channels that have enabled the dictator’s mass human rights crimes in Syria.
"What was released was late, lackadaisical, and riddled with errors," Rep. Pat Fallon (R., Texas), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Free Beacon. "One cannot help but to think that this may have something to do with the erroneous negotiations taking place with Iran."
Fallon said the administration’s "trend of failing to apply the rule of law to its fullest degree to terrorist regimes such as this is deeply troubling" and called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to "immediately issue a full and robust report."
The report’s inadequacies are fueling concerns about the Biden administration’s efforts to roll back pressure on Assad and legitimize his regime. The administration has already floated plans to unwind sanctions on Assad to facilitate an energy deal with Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. Lawmakers expected the report would unmask the financial pipelines that connect Assad and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), who authored the provision mandating the report, told the Free Beacon it is clear the State Department rushed to publication and omitted information on the Assad regime’s illicit drug trade.
"Not only did the Department of State fail to deliver the report on time, but when it finally did deliver it, the report was clearly rushed," Tenney said. "I am particularly disappointed that it did not discuss at length the Assad regime’s increasing involvement in drug trafficking through the illicit Captagon trade, which is generating increasing revenue for the Assad regime and its proxies, such as Hezbollah. The Department undoubtedly could, and should, have comprised a much more comprehensive report on Assad’s illicit and corrupt activities."
Captagon, an illicit amphetamine, has been a prime source of revenue for Assad and his family members. While the report notes that Assad’s brother, Maher, is involved in the "smuggling of the amphetamine captagon," it does not provide any details about these networks and relies only on material that has already been published.
A majority of the report relies only on "open-source information" published in the media and by NGOs. While a classified annex accompanies the report, lawmakers and senior congressional sources who spoke to the Free Beacon said the State Department’s reliance on previously published information shows that it spent very little time researching the report and fulfilling the law.
"It seems they began writing this report 9 a.m. the day after it was due just to get it done," said one senior Republican congressional official who works on foreign policy issues. "They did such a bad job on it that they are basically sheltering Assad and his wealth. There are much better reports out there in the open source by reporters and journalists with information about the Assad family’s wealth."
The report pegs the Assad family’s net worth at around $1 to $2 billion but claims "this is an inexact estimate which the [State] Department is unable to independently corroborate." Several paragraphs later, the report claims that Assad’s cousin, Rami Makhlouf, is worth $5 to $10 billion—a discrepancy that was immediately noted by Republican lawmakers who reviewed the report.
"I’m disappointed that the report was, at best, the bare minimum of what was required," Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Free Beacon. "Sadly, this is a weak, sloppy, and clearly rushed report that shelters the Assad regime from scrutiny."
Former Trump administration officials also took aim at the final report.
"I don’t see anything substantial or new here," tweeted Matthew Zweig, who served as the senior sanctions adviser in the Office of the Special Representative for Syria Engagement. "The Assad wealth report is a missed opportunity."
JOE BIDEN: AMERICA’S DRUG DEALER!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/joe-biden-americas-drug-dealer-but-then.html
From April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. An overwhelming majority of those deaths came from opioids, and fentanyl smuggling has surged at the southern border since the start of Joe Biden's presidency. Joseph Simonson and Collin Anderson
SHOCKING VIDEO!
They Need Counseling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGirVlyrUQ
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible
for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years
of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Israel Stopped Iran Plot to Kill US General
This is a little awkward since the Biden administration was just pushing to remove the IRGC from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
The Mossad – operating in Iran – apprehended and interrogated an Iranian national who was leading a plot to kill an Israeli diplomat and a US general, sources have confirmed.
An audio recording released on Saturday showed a photo of Mansour Rasouli admitting he had been ordered to establish a cell to assassinate a worker at the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, a US general stationed in Germany and a journalist in France.
Rasouli was arrested and questioned in Iran, a rarity as the Mossad regularly operates in conjunction with foreign intelligence services to thwart attacks but almost always from outside the Islamic Republic.
The Israelis are doing two things here, they're demonstrating the dangers of cultivating ties with Iran to the Biden administration, to the French government, and to Turkey's Erdogan.
And they're demonstrating the depth and range of their ability to operate in Iran.
Previous operations, including assassination attempts and the seizure of nuclear secrets, have been impressive, but this is really something else. The Israelis are advertising that they can penetrate Iran and get to IRGC figures in their own country.
There's only two ways to read this.
1. This is a fake or has been misinterpreted.
2. The Iranians have lost control over parts of their country. That's not unprecedented in the region. Syria and Iraq, Iran's neighbors, have limited control over their own territories. The jury's out on the Saudis. But the Islamic Revolution, despite its bluster and nuclear program, seem to have huge gaps on the ground.
The Quds Force, the IRGC branch responsible for overseas operations, planned to carry out the assassinations via drug cartels, with the Islamic Republic reportedly willing to pay over $1 million for the targets.
The planned hits were organized by a member of Quds Force’s Unit 840 stationed in Europe, who was paid $150,000 to “prepare for the assassinations” by using his connections to various European drug lords.
Unit 840 is a relatively secretive operational unit that organizes terrorist infrastructure outside Iran against Western targets and opposition groups, according to the IDF.
Considering that a sizable chunk of Europe's drug dealers are Muslim immigrants and Iran supplies a good deal of Europe's drugs, that's not surprising.
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