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| | Due to the [[UAE]]'s disappointment with Biden - reluctance to designate the Houthis as a terrorist organization, it avoided voting against Russia when pressed by the US in Feb 2022, UN Security Council on the US resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>Roi Kais @ kaisos1987 Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1498316663816605697 Feb 28, 2022]):<blockquote> | | Due to the [[UAE]]'s disappointment with Biden - reluctance to designate the Houthis as a terrorist organization, it avoided voting against Russia when pressed by the US in Feb 2022, UN Security Council on the US resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>Roi Kais @ kaisos1987 Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/kaisos1987/status/1498316663816605697 Feb 28, 2022]):<blockquote> |
| | A senior [[UAE|Emirati]] official tells Kann News that his country's failure to vote in the UN Security Council on the US resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine over the weekend is due in part to disappointment with the US position regarding the Houthi rebels in Yemen...</blockquote></ref> | | A senior [[UAE|Emirati]] official tells Kann News that his country's failure to vote in the UN Security Council on the US resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine over the weekend is due in part to disappointment with the US position regarding the Houthi rebels in Yemen...</blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | Iran’s illicit oil sales help fuel mass military buildup. Biden admin’s lax sanctions enforcement drives Iranian military spending.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/national-security/irans-illicit-oil-sales-help-fuel-mass-military-buildup/ Iran’s Illicit Oil Sales Help Fuel Mass Military Buildup], ''Free Beacon'', Oct 11, 2022. |
| | + | <blockquote>Biden admin’s lax sanctions enforcement drives Iranian military spending. |
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| | + | The Biden administration’s lax enforcement of sanctions on Iran’s illicit oil trade has allowed the hardline regime to infuse more than $15 billion into its military and terrorist proxies during the past two years, according to analysis by a watchdog group. |
| | + | Iranian military spending significantly jumped in 2022 as the regime got more access to cash through its multibillion-dollar trade in illicit oil—cash that made its way to the regime as a result of the Biden administration’s decision not to enforce U.S. sanctions, according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a watchdog group that tracks the regime’s oil sales and military spending. |
| | + | Iran, according to a report by UANI and an open source military spending database, has allocated $10.5 billion this year for its military and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a paramilitary fighting force that backs terrorist groups across the region. That number, which jumped from $4.5 billion in 2021, comes after the regime took in some $43 billion in funds from illicit oil sales, primarily to China. This cash is fueling Iran’s regional terror enterprise, as well as its crackdown at home on a growing protest movement that threatens to topple the hardline regime.</blockquote></ref> |
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