Federal government ‘responsible for Hamas remaining strong,’ expert warns

The United States’ response to Iran, its nuclear program, and its network of terrorism has split between two conflicting strategies: peace through strength vs. financial appeasement.

Most of the Western world agrees that Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, must never obtain a nuclear weapon. But how to prevent them from producing such a weapon remains a topic of fierce debate, especially now that reports suggest that the country’s nuclear program could be a mere weeks away from attaining enough enriched uranium to make a bomb.

“Iran’s breakout time — the amount of time needed to produce sufficient weapons-grade uranium for one nuclear weapon — ‘is now probably one or two weeks,’ said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on July 19,” reported the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD). “This is reportedly the shortest period of time that U.S. officials have ever publicly referenced for Iran producing that quantity of weapons-grade uranium. As of May 2024, the Institute for Science and International Security assessed that Tehran could make enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon in one week and enough for 13 weapons in four months.”

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In 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, restricted Iran’s ability to enrich uranium and reduced its preexisting stockpile in exchange for $160 billion in frozen assets. Critics pointed out that the regime could simply use the money to purchase a nuclear weapon from another country or fund terrorism against the United States and its allies. Others criticized the deal for appeasing Iran, suggesting that the country would take advantage of the financial benefits while ignoring the stipulations. Unsurprisingly, within a few years, Iran had already violated the agreement, which the United States left in 2018.

Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, blasted this policy of supplying financial favors to a nation that hates us, openly wishes for our destruction, and is actively seeking to assassinate our political leaders. He argued that the billions of dollars the U.S. has made available to Iran over the past decade easily could have been used to “fund and arm Hamas and Hezbollah.”


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Unfortunately, the United States has continued to give money to the terrorist state even after the collapse of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Less than one month before the horrific Hamas attacks on October 7, for example, the United States entered into a $6 billion deal for a prisoner swap with Iran. A few weeks after October 7, Iran received $10 billion more after the U.S. waived sanctions against the state’s electricity revenue.

“It is beyond belief that [the government] would make available $10 billion for a regime that will turn around and use this money to wage war against America and Israel,” Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the FDD, responded to the waiver.

“The United States is ‘in part responsible for Hamas remaining strong and remaining really in existence,’ Klein said.”

In order to truly deter Iran, the world must know that the United States is strong. Throwing billions of dollars at a nation that calls for our demise and sponsors terrorism against our allies is not strength; it’s bartering for mercy from a position of weakness. 

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