Susan Rice: We
‘Expect’ Iran Will Spend Some Of New Money on Military, Maybe on Terror
by Ian Hanchett 15 Jul 2015
National Security Adviser Susan Rice said “we should expect” that some of the money
Iran gets under sanctions relief as a result of the nuclear deal “would go to
the Iranian military and could potentially be used for the kinds of bad
behavior that we have seen in the region” on Wednesday’s “Situation Room” on CNN.
Rice was asked about the money Iran will receive under
sanctions relief and how they can use it, she answered that the sanctions were
only put in place “to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.” She added, “Our
best judgment is, first of all, it’s going to take them quite a while to access
that money. And it will take — they won’t be able to get it all at once. They
won’t get any of it, not one dime of it, Wolf, unless and until they take the
steps that they’ve committed to take to dismantle the bulk of their nuclear
program. So, they have to take out 2/3ds of their centrifuges. They have to get
rid of 98% of their uranium stockpile. They have to render inoperative their
plutonium facility. They have to let the IAEA do the inspections and the
interviews that are necessary to answer the questions that remain about Iran’s
past nuclear activities. Among — they have to let the IAEA in and establish
this 24/7 monitoring that I described. All of those steps have to be taken.”
She continued, “And then at that point, the sanctions will
be suspended. And Iran will begin to be able to access its frozen accounts
around the world. What do we think they’ll spend that money on? We think, for
the most part, they’re going to need to spend it on the Iranian people and
their economy which has tanked. And Rouhani, the president, was really elected
on the hope that he would bring economic relief to the Iranian people. But
yes, it is real, it is possible, and, in fact, we should expect that some
portion of that money would go to the Iranian military and could potentially be
used for the kinds of bad behavior that we have seen in the region up until
now. But the goal here, Wolf, was never, and was not designed to prevent them
from engaging in bad behavior in region. They’re doing that today. The goal is
to ensure that they don’t have a nuclear weapon, and therefore, when they are
engaging in that bad behavior, are that much more dangerous.”
Rice added that Iran couldn’t send weapons to anyone because
of the arms embargo but “they may be able to send money” to Bashar Assad or
Houthi rebels in Yemen. She later argued, “They’re sending money now, while
they’re under sanctions. There is nothing currently that is preventing them
from sending money.” Although she conceded, “They will have more money, once
they have verifiably given up their nuclear weapons capacity and any
ability to reconstitute it.”
She later predicted that if Congress rejects the deal, the
sanctions regime “will collapse.”
Iran
Hushang
Ansary was the minister of economic affairs for Iran, a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a trustee at the Asia Society, and is an overseer at the
Weill Cornell Medical College.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Daisy
M. Soros is his sister-in-law, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the International Rescue
Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Daisy
M. Soros is George Soros’s sister-in-law,
and an overseer at the Weill Cornell
Medical College.
Condoleezza Rice is an honorary director at
the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), is a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States (think tank), an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was
the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Tom
Brokaw is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and was
a trustee emeritus at the Asia Society.
Maurice R.
Greenberg is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, was the chairman for the Asia Society, and an overseer at the Weill Cornell Medical College.
David A. Hamburg
is a scholar at the Weill Cornell
Medical College, and an adviser at the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the founder of CNN.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Abby Joseph Cohen
was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is an overseer
at the Weill Cornell Medical College.
Charles O.
Prince III was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
an overseer at the Weill Cornell Medical
College.
Jeffrey W.
Greenberg was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
is an overseer at the Weill Cornell
Medical College.
Ronald O. Perelman
is an overseer at the Weill Cornell
Medical College, and was a funder, 2013 fundraiser chair for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Timothy C. Collins
is an overseer at the Weill Cornell
Medical College, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Hushang
Ansary is an overseer at the Weill
Cornell Medical College, was a trustee at the Asia Society, a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the minister of economic
affairs for Iran.
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