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.
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