Iran Stole More Than $1 Billion in Coronavirus Funds Meant to Help The Country’s People

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And you thought they couldn’t be any more evil.

Iranian Officials Stole More Than $1 Billion in Coronavirus Funds

Tehran uses pandemic to spread anti-U.S. propaganda

Iranian regime officials stole more than $1 billion meant to help the country’s people fight the spread of coronavirus, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

By Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 23, 2020:

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European countries intended for more than $1 billion in aid to go to the Iranian people, who have been ravaged by the virus. But American officials say regime leaders instead pocketed the money to protect themselves from the virus as it spreads throughout the population. This includes hoarding medical supplies that were meant to aid Iranian citizens.

Iran has been among the hardest hit by the virus, and its government’s response has drawn international criticism, especially from the Trump administration. Secretary of State Pompeo accused Iran of mass corruption as the regime continues to spread propaganda, including accusations that the United States manufactured the coronavirus and is using its tough global sanctions campaign to prevent Iran from accessing medicine and humanitarian aid.

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Pompeo on Monday issued a series of new allegations about Tehran’s mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak. “Supreme leader [Ali] Khamenei’s fabrications regarding the Wuhan virus are dangerous and they put Iranians and people around the world at greater risk,” Pompeo said. “Facts matter.”

“Regime officials stole over a billion euros intended for medical supplies,” Pompeo said in one of the first public accountings of Iran’s alleged misuse of coronavirus funds. That sum amounts to well over one billion in American currency. Pompeo also said Iranian officials “continue to hoard desperately needed masks, gloves, and other medical equipment for sale on the black market.”

Iranian officials have disseminated falsehoods about the nature of U.S. sanctions, which do not include restrictions on humanitarian assistance. These talking points have been picked up by Tehran’s American allies, including members of the Obama administration’s so-called echo chamber, as part of an effort to see sanctions on Iran lifted.

 

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patd
patd
4 years ago

LMAO!!!! Just can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds!!!! Now the terrorist have more money to attack the west.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  patd

Or the WEST giving them money to do it!

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The Europeans and West generally are now just so stupid when dealing with Islamic countries. Nothing dishonest done by Muslims seems to register with Western morons now so deeply steeped in idiotic political correctness ideology. We can ridicule Muslims for inbreeding stupidity, but what is the explanation for Western stupidity? Even the U.S. State Department is utterly ‘dumb’ with its adherence to the notion that poverty drives Muslims to violence. Mike Pompeo needs to get Robert Spencer in to educate his entire staff in Islam, but we know it’s not going to happen. ‘Stupid is a as stupid does’!

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

They have an Arabist desk at Foggy Bottom and Spencer should be appointed its head. Pamela and Robert should vet all Ambassadors and State Department and CIA personnel sent to Muslim nations. That simple act would solve a lot of Trump’s Problems dealing with the Muslims.

tituspullo
tituspullo
4 years ago

really, who were these people that assumed the muslims wouldn’t act like muslims?

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

money sucking liberals operating in fantasy land

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

Like Trudeau keeping a crossing point open in Canada for diseased migrant terrorists. I hardly see a white person there anymore

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

A totalitarian, theocratic, religious apartheid state receiving humanitarian aid? Why? I can’t help but notice the rotten, corrupt, immoral, degenerate Europeon Urinal doesn’t give a fig about the ongoing genocide of Christians in Nigeria (or the millions of kuffar slaves across Africa), but line up like drones to pay off their muslum petromasters.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

I’d opine that it’s not altruism at all, it’s kick backs to their muslum petroeuro masters. The rotten Europeon Urinal is owned by the f’ing muslum petrocracies just like the UN.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago

Nobody, not even supposedly Christian churches in the West – and in my case I’m talking about Canada – are talking about the genocide of Christians in Nigeria. When thousands of Christians and Yazidis were being murdered with astounding cruelty in Iraq and Syrian by ISIS, al Qaeda and other Muslims groups, who said a thing other than lone voices such as that of Andrew White the Anglican vicar of Baghdad – to whom the Government of Canada did not give any heed and we can bet was ignored by the cowardly and utter useless Theresa May. But criticize Islam with facts and the howls of “Islamophobia’ will be endless.

movingwaters
movingwaters
4 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

I pray with people who follow Open Doors and others who help the persecuted church. We pray continually for Christians in Nigeria, China, the ME, etc. But I have to admit that it seems that relatively few churches even bring up the subject.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

There are Christians who disgust me, but at least they’re not passing legislation in Californication that, for all intents and purposes, legalises child prostitution.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

just wait… They got killing delivered babies done

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

UN is a muslim run terrorist organization now

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Iranian officials have disseminated falsehoods about the nature of U.S. sanctions, which do not include restrictions on humanitarian assistance.

Time to STOP humanitarian assistance too. Money given to IRAN never gets to the people. It either goes in the pockets of the elite or towards Islamic jihad.

I honestly don’t know what it takes to get through to the WEST. Muslims are NOT compassionate people. Again, we are assuming they having western values such as compassion, or honestly and care about their people – they don’t!

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Its NOT humanitarian unless you give it to Christians. The others want you and your kind dead

Gnomercy
Gnomercy
4 years ago

Any time the terms “Billion Dollars” and “Stolen” appear in the same sentence, there’s going to be Clinton involvement.

Ban Islam
Ban Islam
4 years ago

Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, etc have been bilking Europe and the US of billions of dollars in humanitarian and military aid, or bribes to stop migrants from flooding Europe or in Obama’s case, cold hard cash to try to appease the Mullahs.

What did these retards expect? They have been rewarding thugs, despots, terrorist regimes for decades all at the expensive of taxpayers and the oppressed citizens of these regimes. At least the US figured out Pakistan was playing them for fools and stopped their aid.

It reminds me of all the aid (money, food, medicine, etc) the UN sent to Africa, only to have it stolen by warlords and dictators there, did they think it’d be any different in Islamic countries? How many trillions of dollars do they have to pour down the Islamic sinkhole until they wise up and stop feeding that deadly beast?

The right way to do it is to first eradicate all these evil regimes (and its supporters), install secular-democratic rulers, ban Islam entirely and then you give them aid to help their population. Morons.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

It figures. In his “Carnage and Culture”, Victor Davis Hansen makes the point that there can exist a mismatch between advanced technology in military strength coupled with 7th century political thought in places like Iran.

Gaddafi had given up Libya’s nuclear arsenal and was coming around to our way of thinking but Hillary jacked around and got him murdered.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

He refused the federal reserve bank so deserved to die

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago

Just laughing my head off! Did anyone really expect otherwise? Oh wait, EU politicians and the UN.

Of that billion, how much was offloaded into Iranian terror programs?

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

I smell the stench of LibTard style corruption. Why would anyone send 1.2 billion to Iran if hey were not lining their pockets. Investigate and you will find the EU paid top dollar for supplies sent to the mad mullahs and everyone knew they would resell them the blackmarket. Are you kidding me?

Kuffar
Kuffar
4 years ago

Be stupid Dhimmis. Pay the jizya and shut the eff up. Don’t be surprised when your trains start exploding.

IronMaidenLastRide
IronMaidenLastRide
4 years ago

Iranian regime stole more than One Billion meant for the corona virus aid, what more do you expect from a cheating / stealing follower of the religion of peace…… it is in their DNA to steal / kill / rob / lie

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

No one thought it was for the people. WTF were you thinking? That was for the mullahs

Roland
Roland
4 years ago

I guess the $150 billion mobama sent them was not enough.. What do you expect when you make a deal with the devil?

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago
Reply to  Roland

what was the obamashare?

Don39
Don39
4 years ago

You think what the Iranian so-called leadership is doing is wrong? How about the damnocrat leadership holding our nation hostage to get what they haven’t a snowball chance in hell of getting while our people are sick and dying. Want to hang some real criminals? Try Pelosi and Schumer and their treasonous cabal the so called Democrat Party!

Don39
Don39
4 years ago

FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD!

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

what was Obola’s share?

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