Biden Administration ignored intelligence reports detailing Iraq’s participation in oil and fuel smuggling funding the IRGC
Arab and Western sources report that during 2024, the Biden administration received a 45-page intelligence file detailing Iraqi government assistance to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in smuggling Iranian fuel and oil.
The method:
In recent years, Iraqi tankers have been mixing Iranian fuel and oil with a little Iraqi fuel and oil and selling them on the international market through Iraqi companies operated by the Shiite militias in Iraq and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards - this is with the knowledge of the Iraqi government and with a deliberate turn a blind eye to what is happening.
All profits from the sales go directly to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and their Iraqi proxy - the volume of sales is estimated at tens of billions of dollars.
ERAN MALKA ADDS:
American sanctions on Iran during the Biden years had no value.
This is equivalent to trying to strangle a person by plugging their ears.
The American disregard, in my opinion, stems from 3 main reasons:
- They are doing exactly the same thing in Syria together with the SDF militia.
- If they do not "give air" to the Iranian proxy in Iraq, they will once again become their moving targets.
- The US is no longer welcome in Iraq and any move against The Shiite government/militia will almost immediately lead to its removal from the country - which will clearly have repercussions on its presence in Syria.
NEWSRAEL: We would add a "Reason #4": Someone in the US government, someone very high up, was being BRIBED. There - We said it! In the meantime, Israel paid the price in a war going on for over a year becuase the Iran proxies had all the money they needed to fight against us.