According to a State Department report, lax enforcement of sanctions by President Joe Biden during his first year in office allowed $23 billion to flow into Iran’s coffers, even as the country armed the Taliban, attacked U.S. forces in the Middle East, and financed terror plots across five continents, the Free Beacon reports. Iran’s illicit oil trade with China jumped from just $6.6 billion in 2020 to more than $23 billion in 2021 when Biden took office and stopped enforcing sanctions on Iran’s oil trade with China. The decision to halt sanctions came as part of the administration’s efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, which has not been successful. The report also showed that with more cash resources on hand, Iran supported terror plots across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) provided support to eight U.S.-designated terror groups in 2021, and Iran also provided “weapons and support” to the Taliban in 2021, the same year that the Biden administration oversaw a poorly executed evacuation from Afghanistan that resulted in the Taliban’s return to power. Former U.S. officials and regional experts say the findings show that the Biden administration’s early diplomacy with Iran helped fuel its support for terrorism. The State Department report also indicated that “Iran-supported groups continue to engage in dangerous and destabilizing activity across the Middle East, with Iran using the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and its proxies and partners to advance its interests abroad.” Iranian arms and money flowed to virtually every major anti-Israel terror group, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The report highlights how the Biden administration’s bungled evacuation of Afghanistan allowed the country to become a safe haven for terror groups, including ISIS, which launched 334 attacks in Afghanistan in 2021, compared with just 60 in 2020 prior to the withdrawal. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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