Senator Ted Cruz smoked the reporters over at Bloomberg while slamming Joe Biden for giving billions to the Iranian regime.
âRight now, Joe Biden is asking for $24 billion to go to Ukraine to fight the war, but simultaneously theyâre announcing theyâre sending $16 billion to Iran,â Cruz said to âBalance of Powerâ co-hosts Joe Mathieu and Annmarie Hordern. âIran is using that money to make drones, and those drones are going to Russia and Russia is using those drones to kill Ukrainians, so the Biden administration is funding both sides of the war.â
Hordern attempted to debunk Cruz, quoting the amount released to Iran as âonlyâ $6 billion. âWell Senator. Senator. Itâs not $16 billion, it's $6 billion, and itâs Iranian funds that were in South Koreaâ before rattling off a number of unrelated talking points.
But as Cruz pointed out, he was speaking about the total amount Biden has given to Iran, not just the additional $6 billion they got this week in exchange for five freed Americans. âThereâs a number you said that was incorrect. Number one; youâre correct that the number they announced this week was $6 billion to exchange for five hostages, but that follows two weeks after they released $10 billion that came from Iraq to Iran. So in total itâs $16 billion that has flowed into the Ayatollah's coffers.â
While not as widely reported on as the â$6 billionâ figure, that $16 billion in total would be flowing to Iran was also reported on. For instance, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported last month that âThe United States moved toward giving Iran access to at least $16 billion in the last few weeks, including $6 billion held in South Korea as part of a prisoner exchange deal and $10 billion held in Iraq to pay off Baghdadâs debts for its purchases of Iranian natural gas.â
Cruz added âIt is a bizarre political obsession of the Biden White House to want to send him tens of billions of dollars,â after noting the regimeâs regular âDeath to America chants.â âIt is a 100% certainty that this money that theyâre sending to Iran will be used to fund terrorism to kill Americans.â
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