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PHOTO RELEASE Sen. Rick Scott Demands that Biden Permanently Rescind $6 Billion Payment to Hamas-Supporting Iranian Regime

October 17, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, Senator Rick Scott joined Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and their Republican colleagues at a press conference to support Israel and demand that President Biden immediately and permanently rescind the $6 billion payment he previously authorized to Iran. On October 9th, two days after the attack by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists began in Israel, Senator Scott joined Senator Blackburn in leading 18 of their Senate Republican colleagues in calling on President Biden and the State Department to immediately rescind the waivers that allowed Iranian funds to be converted and moved to more accessible bank accounts, as well as work with Qatar to immediately freeze the accounts containing these funds.

 

Senator Rick Scott said, “The terror and devastation unleashed on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists has rightly horrified the world. More than 1,400 innocent people, including at least 30 Americans, were brutally murdered. Not since the Holocaust has the world witnessed such a brutal attack on the Jewish people. The most important thing for America to do right now is to STAND WITH ISRAEL. It was foolish for the U.S. to ever move this money, and now we need to formally rescind these funds so they never get to the evil Iranian regime and make clear that the United States of America WILL NEVER tolerate terrorism and anyone that supports it. Anyone who says Iran couldn’t use this $6 BILLION to support terrorism is lying to you. It’s time to take these funds off the table for good, slam Iran with the most severe sanctions imaginable and hold this evil regime accountable for the terror it has unleashed on the world.”

 

Following the attacks and throughout the past two weeks, Senator Scott has taken the following actions and released the following statements:

 

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