Obama Admin Fears Iran Deal Will Release Billions for Terror Attacks

A nuclear agreement with Iran could give Tehran a $100 billion financial windfall—a sum that even the Obama administration is concerned could be used to finance terrorism against American interests.

The militant group Hezbollah has had to cut salaries and defer payments to its suppliers as a result of financial restraints in Iran, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Sponsored by the Iranian government, which has been hit by falling global oil prices and international sanctions, Hezbollah could be in a position to take advantage of billions of dollars in newly-freed Iranian assets.

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“If Iran gets back this money, what will it do with it?” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah asked earlier this year, according to a translation in the Weekly Standard. “A rich and strong Iran… will be able to stand by its allies and friends, and the peoples of the region, especially the resistance in Palestine, more than in any time in the past.”

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