The Biden regime appears determined to get funds to the Islamic Republic.
“Iran Says Iraq Has Settled Debt for Gas Imports, Shana Reports,” by Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg, June 25, 2023:
Iraq has fully paid a debt for natural gas purchases from Iran, according to the head of the National Iranian Gas Co., the state-run Shana news agency reported.
The statement comes after Iraq’s foreign ministry this month announced “substantial arrangements” with the US over waiving sanctions that prohibited Iraq from paying about $2.7 billion it owed to Tehran for the shipments.
However, Iran is still unable to tap the funds because of “an issue with the transfer of money from the Trade Bank of Iraq to Iran,” Majid Chegeni, who’s also a deputy oil minister, said without providing details….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t blame Iraq. Once the Mahdi Army threat to the US installed regime in Baghdad was quelled, Iraq straddled a path separate from both fellow-shi’a Iran and fellow-Arab Saudi Arabia, and was not a client state of Iran. However, once this administration came in and started playing footsie w/ Iran, it was politically impossible for Baghdad to be more anti-Teheran than Washington itself
I just hope that Biden wouldn’t have handed over the store to Iran by January 2025
Burnaby Lad says
2.7 billion
crude support $71.70
capitalist news
FYI says
The Theocratic state of the Islamic republic of Iran is controlled by a religious mafia subject t a SUPREME LEADER,a sort of religious version of Il capo di tutti capi.
A religious ideology used to control the masses through fear.
The non-Theocratic state of North Korea is controlled by communists sublect to a SUPREME LEADER
A political ideology used to control the masses through fear.
In the west there is talk of ’15 minute cities’,hate speech laws,travel restriction and the need to get rid of cash and be microchipped{Klaus Schwab said so!}
Even in the Soviet Union you could at least travel within the USSR.
The EU{SSR} is MORE communist than the USSR ever was.
And the EU{SSR} will probably need ….a SUPREME LEADER
Gurek says
Islam controls people through the fear of allah and hatred of all the non-Muslim unbelievers. This is why it is difficult to leave islam, especially if you are living in an islamic country, that becomes even more dificult as you are demonized by islamic hate preachers and could be put to death by the sharia state or sharia adherent people.
FYI says
Which is why I really admire ex-muslims.Iranians are cool but their islam is appalling.
Here is something ridiculous.In islam :allah sends GOOD people to hell for being infidels.
An infidel is defined as “the WORST of created beings'[koran 98:6}
An infidel is an Atheist,Buddhist,Christian,Pagan,Hindu,ex-muslim etc.
allah sends infidels to hell and also muslim women and people whose faces turn black on the day of islamic judgement.allah does not like women,Jews or black people in particular
Now here is the lunacy of the koran: a muslim who is friends with an infidel is ALSO an infidel.
“o ye who believe!Take not the Jews and Christians for friends.They are friends.to one another.He among you who taketh them for FRIENDS is ‘one of them’
Lo!allah guideth not wrongdoing folk
Koran 5:51
How NUTS is that?
Not only is this contrary to human nature but it makes no sense.It is also contrary to the teachings of the Bible which allah confirms{koran 3:3}{The Golden Rule /2nd Chief commandment are in the Bible!}.Muslims who are friends with non-muslims are ‘wrongdoing folk’.
So if you happened to be a devout muslim and one of your friends happens to be an infidel
then you would ALSO be an infidel…you are going to hell!
What then is the point of being a devout muslim?
The Iranians are a sophisticated people who are way too advanced to be subject to an Arab cult that was forced upon them.Their ancestors the Persians were too.