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Iran nuclear deal allows Iran to increase funding to terrorists

Surprise, surprise: The Iran nuclear deal has allowed Iran to immediately send more cash to the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah.

Since the deal was signed, Iran has significantly increased its financial support for two of the largest terror groups in the region that have become political players, Hamas and Hezbollah. In the years before the deal was signed, the crippling sanctions limited this support, which had significantly diminished along with Iran’s economy. But Tehran’s belief that tens, or hundreds, of billions of dollars will flow into the country in the coming years as a result of sanctions relief has led to a decision to boost the cash flow to these terror organizations.

This support, for example, has enabled Hezbollah to obtain highly developed new armaments, including advanced technologies that many militaries around the world would envy. Al-Rai, a Kuwaiti newspaper, reported Saturday that Hezbollah has received all the advanced weaponry that Syria has obtained from the Russians. The report cited a security source involved in the fighting in Zabadani, on the Syria-Lebanon border, where Hezbollah is fighting the al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State, and other groups. It is evidently the growing Iranian financial support that is enabling the Lebanese Shiite militia to purchase advanced weapons, including ones that were hitherto outside of its reach.

There is more. Read it all. As Ted Cruz had correctly noted, Obama’s Iran deal would make his administration the world’s biggest financial supporter of terrorism. This article proves that statement 100% correct.

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6 comments

  • Wodun

    Obama probably views Hamas and Hezbollah getting more funding and weaponry as a good thing. There is a lot of support for these groups in the activist wing of the party, of which Obama was a member. The administration wants pressure on Israel and this fits with their other policies that also help create it.

  • Cotour

    I had to put this email together for an unconscious friend to establish the reasonable rational for believing that Obama might have Islamic leanings. This is related to then Trump question the other day and the Carson statement about no Muslim should be president. Carson is correct we see what it has brought us. Islam and the Koran should be seen as a military document and not just a religious book.

    My email to my friend:

    Can you attempt to argue that Obama is not at least an Islamic sympathizer established by his own words and at worst a Muslim in spirit or in fact? By his own words.

    1. https://youtu.be/XKGdkqfBICw

    2. https://youtu.be/tCAffMSWSzY

    3. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/booklet.asp

    And by his own words and promotion is an African. (HE STATED IT IN WRITING FOR WHAT EVER REASON)

    I did not make up or say these things HE did.

    Read, do your research, the research that everyone should have done 8 plus years ago.

    If you remember I have been very consistent on the subject because I have read and done my research.

  • PeterF

    So Mohammed was the antichrist and Obama is Rosemary’s baby.
    Tell us something we don’t know, like September 24th is the beginning of the apocalypse.
    hmm, better stock up on milk and bread… and toilet paper!

  • Cotour

    What is your point?

    My post was related to attempting to my informing someone who is in many ways unconscious about what is going on except for what they hear on MSNBC and Morning Joe. The liberal media almost exclusively controls what they “know”.

    Has an opinion about Islam and Muslims being president, but when questioned knows nothing about the Koran or Islam or how the Constitution is at odds with such things. They “know” because they heard it on the TV.

    I think Mohammad was just a guy trying to control the multitude of insane tribes in Arabia, Obama may however be the political version of what you suggest.

  • Cotour

    Lets remind ourselves what the long term effects of Mr. Obama and his wonderful leftist agenda is:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/video-muslims-taunt-nj-school-officials-were-going-to-be-the-majority-soon/

    Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult.

    In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

    Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

    Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.

    When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.

    Here’s how it works:

    As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the > case in:

    United States — Muslim 0..6%

    Australia — Muslim 1.5%

    Canada — Muslim 1.9%

    China — Muslim 1.8%

    Italy — Muslim 1.5%

    Norway — Muslim 1.8%

    At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:

    Denmark — Muslim 2%

    Germany — Muslim 3.7%

    United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%

    Spain — Muslim 4%

    Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

    From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

    France — Muslim 8%

    Philippines — 5%

    Sweden — Muslim 5%

    Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%

    The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%

    Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

    At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

    When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. In Russia, grade-schools were attacked. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:

    Guyana — Muslim 10%

    India — Muslim 13.4%

    Israel — Muslim 16%

    Kenya — Muslim 10%

    Russia — Muslim 15%

    After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

    Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

    At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

    Bosnia — Muslim 40%

    Chad — Muslim 53.1%

    Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

    From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

    Albania — Muslim 70%

    Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%

    Qatar — Muslim 77.5%

    Sudan — Muslim 70%

    After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, beheadings, stoning, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

    Bangladesh — Muslim 83%

    Egypt — Muslim 90%

    Gaza — Muslim 98.7%

    Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%

    Iran — Muslim 98%

    Iraq — Muslim 97%

    Jordan — Muslim 92%

    Morocco — Muslim 98.7%

    Pakistan — Muslim 97%

    Palestine — Muslim 99%

    Syria — Muslim 90%

    Tajikistan — Muslim 90%

    Turkey — Muslim 99.8%

    United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%

    Is this the future of the United States?

    Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. – Sura 2:98

    On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. – Sura 2:161

    Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. – 2:191

    Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme. (different translation: ) Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is God’s entirely. – Sura 2:193 and 8:39

    Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. – 2:216

    (different translation: ) Prescribed for you is fighting, though it is hateful to you.

    ….. martyrs…. Enter heaven – Surah 3:140-43

    If you should die or be killed in the cause of Allah, His mercy and forgiveness would surely be better than all they riches they amass. If you should die or be killed, before Him you shall all be gathered. – 3:157-8

    You must not think that those who were slain in the cause of Allah are dead. They are alive, and well-provided for by their Lord. – Surah 3:169-71

    Let those fight in the cause of God who sell the life of this world for the hereafter. To him who fights in the cause of God, whether he is slain or victorious, soon we shall give him a great reward. – Surah 4:74

    Those who believe fight in the cause of God, and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil. – 4:76

    But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever you find them. – 4:89

    Therefore, we stirred among them enmity and hatred, which shall endure till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will declare to them all that they have done. – 5:14

    O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Those of you who make them his friends is one of them. God does not guide an unjust people. – 5:54

    Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme – 8:39

    O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there are 20 steadfast men among you, they shall vanquish 200; and if there are a hundred, they shall rout a thousand unbelievers, for they are devoid of understanding. – 8:65

  • Cotour

    False flag or is this a set up for a Syrian action that will blame the U.S. for wanting a reason to attack Syria, I.E. Russia?

    https://youtu.be/LmYCgK2zHCI

    Both are possible realities, one is more than likely true. Short term it is not possible to reliably determine which is which, and that is the beauty of S.O.M. (Strategy Over Morality) type actions at this level of power. We the people look at these things from a moral perspective, ultimately leadership is not burdened with such issues, they think only in necessary opportune strategic terms and can use morality as cover for actions determined as being necessary to fulfill there ultimate fiduciary leadership responsibilities.

    Exercising massive power and precision technology at will serves many purposes especially since Russia has been exercising certain power moves unopposed in the region, especially under the Obama administration, and then there is China and its misbehavior and then there is the up coming N. Korea meeting.

    An American president willing to exercise / demonstrate real power in order to reorganize and redirect the direction that the world WAS going calculates into these kinds of moves IMO.

    The exercise of power always make an enemy rethink what they can or should be doing. This is how the game is played.

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