Biden's waiver of Iran sale electricity to Iraq criticized
After Iran-backed Hamas terrorists massacred about 1,200 Jews in Israel and Iran-backed militias throughout the Middle East attacked U.S. bases across the region, the U.S. State Department under President Joe Biden extended a waiver that allows Iran to sell electricity to Iraq and use the money to purchase goods overseas.
“It is beyond insane,” Robert Greenway, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, told The Daily Signal on Friday, three days after the State Department extended the waiver. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news outlet.)
“Among the most irresponsible things you can do is to pay your enemies to attack you,” Greenway, who orchestrated former President Donald Trump’s sanctions against Iran, added.
He described Iraq’s payments to Iran for electricity as a “money laundering scheme.” As of 2022, Iraq was the world’s fifth-largest oil producer, producing 4.61 million barrels per day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Yet Iraq imports electricity from its eastern neighbor.
“A major oil producer importing electricity? It’s the stupidest thing in the world,” Greenway said. “Iraq deliberately decides they need electricity and it won’t bring in countries to improve its electric grid.”
Iraq also refuses to import the electricity from its other neighbors in the Persian Gulf, he said. Instead, Iraqi leaders “deliberately” hobble their country because “Iran wants cash.”
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The waiver does look like a mistake that benefits Iran after its support of attacks on the US and Israel.
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