By Con Coughlin, GATESTONE • April 14, 2022
- Iran’s efforts to conclude a revised nuclear deal with the Biden administration could result in the Kremlin receiving a windfall of half-a-billion dollars to fund its war effort against Ukraine.
- To boost its economy, Russia is now demanding that Iran pay in cash for the deals currently under discussion, as well as repaying outstanding debts believed to be worth more than half a billion dollars in cash owed for Russia’s work on the Bushehr facility.
- “Iran has promised Russia that it will pay its debt once Iranian funds held in the US are no longer under sanctions and become available for use,” a senior Western security official told me this week. “Furthermore, Iran has made transferring down payments to Russia for the purpose of implementing the military agreements between the parties conditional on reaching an agreement in Vienna.”
- Apart from offering to help the Kremlin evade sanctions, Iran is also believed to be working to engage China and enlist its assistance as well for the purpose of bypassing Western sanctions.
- Despite denials by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted by the Russian news agency RIA confirming that there has been coordination between the parties for the purpose of bypassing Western sanctions.
- Western security officials are concerned that any funds Iran sends to Moscow will be used to help fund Mr Putin’s war effort in Ukraine. There have already been reports of Iran providing weapons to support Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, and Moscow is desperate to find new ways of supporting its economy so that it can maintain its military offensive.
- The fact that Iran is actively seeking to provide Moscow with financial assistance which could be used to fund the war in Ukraine is deeply embarrassing for the Biden administration, which still shows no sign of ending its efforts to revive the nuclear deal.
- Certainly, if the deal does go ahead, enabling Iran to pay off its debts to Moscow, then the Biden administration could find itself accused of having the blood of innocent Ukrainian civilians on its hands for allowing Iran to fund the Kremlin’s war effort.
Iran’s efforts to conclude a revised nuclear deal with the Biden administration could result in the Kremlin receiving a windfall of half-a-billion dollars to fund its war effort against Ukraine. Apart from offering to help the Kremlin evade sanctions, Iran is also believed to be working to engage China and enlist its assistance as well for the purpose of bypassing Western sanctions. Pictured: Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (R) in Moscow on January 19, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran’s efforts to conclude a revised nuclear deal with the Biden administration could result in the Kremlin receiving a windfall of half-a-billion dollars to fund its war effort against Ukraine.
That is the conclusion reached by Western security officials who are becoming increasingly concerned by the discussions taking place between Moscow and Tehran about deepening their cooperation once the nuclear deal has been signed.
Iran has already engaged in detailed discussions with Moscow about helping Russia to evade Western sanctions by giving it access to Tehran’s sophisticated financial sanctions-busting network.
With the Russian economy suffering as a result of the economic sanctions imposed in retaliation for President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is increasing the pressure on Tehran to provide it with economic support.
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@Linda
That’s a bridge too far for me.
Con Coughlin worries:
“Certainly, if the deal does go ahead, enabling Iran to pay off its debts to Moscow, then the Biden administration could find itself accused of having the blood of innocent Ukrainian civilians on its hands for allowing Iran to fund the Kremlin’s war effort.”
REALLY?? For me, the entire Russia/Ukraine escapade is a globalist/CIA operation with two main objectives:
– Cover up the US gain-of-function bio-labs in Ukraine
– Cover up the staggering corruption of the Bidens, Clintons, Obamas, Pelosis, Romneys, and Kerrys in Ukraine
In my opinion, Putin is not the villain the media has portrayed him to be, and he is not the hero of the Westphalian nation state so many people wish him to be. Putin is a KGB pragmatist and very involved with the WEF. This war has been a boon to Putin. It enriched the Russian economy with inflationary oil prices and stabilized the ruble. My sense of Putin is that he is different from China’s Chairman XI. Xi is playing the globalists (just as Mao played Nixon/Kissinger) and honestly believes, like Mao did, that China will ultimately prevail and make the world a planetary Chinese communist state. I actually think Putin will be satisfied being rewarded with a reunified Russia. Time will tell.
LG