At least one lawmaker is urging President Joe Biden to freeze the $6 billion in funds recently unlocked to Iran as reports emerge that Tehran was directly behind the terrorist group Hamas' deadly incursion into Israel over the weekend.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps helped Hamas leaders plot the attack and in fact approved the operation during a meeting last week in Beirut.
McCarthy, who has said he would return as speaker in the event of a stalemate by the GOP-led lower chamber in choosing a new one, due to the crisis in Israel, made the comments during an address Monday in the aftermath of Saturday's incursion. The Biden administration last month unfroze $6 billion of Iran's money and agreed to an exchange of five Iranians for the five Americans who were detained in the terrorist nation. Blinken said Sunday that Iran had a "right to use these monies for humanitarian purposes."
Mahmoud Mirdawi, a senior Hamas official, called it a "Palestinian and Hamas decision," while Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad told the BBC on Saturday that Iran gave its full support to launch the attacks.
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