Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she believes the $6 billion in frozen funds returned to Iran had a role in the Hamas attack in Israel.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley blasted Secretary of State Antony Blinken as 'irresponsible' for claiming there was no connection between the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the $6 billion of frozen funds that the U.S. released to Iran as part of a prisoner swap deal. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former U.S.
It's very unfortunate that some are playing politics at a time when so many lives have been lost and Israel remains under attack,' Blinken said, arguing that the $6 billion in funds from that account could only be used for medical supplies, food and medicine. Haley claimed that it was ignorant to think the funds couldn’t be moved around and used for other means. 'To think that they're not moving money around is irresponsible,' Haley said. 'They hate Israel.
It was wrong to go and have that debacle in Afghanistan,' she continued. 'It was wrong to waive sanctions on Iran that gave them even more money. Money has been flowing to Iran, and that is the problem, because when Iran gets money, they use it for hate.'
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