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2023-10-10 23:30:17 UTC - HELPFUL
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This post implies the US government sent money to Iran with the intention to fund Hamas (“sent $6 billion to Iran *to* fund Hamas”). What it did was to authorize the release of $6 billion that came from Iran’s oil exports to South Korea as part of a broad deal. https://apnews.com/article/us-iran-prisoners-blinken-3e834df0a845ef2cc5c52af14598c66f https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2023-08-11/national/politics/Seoul-to-release-Irans-7-billion-frozen-funds-in-Korea/1844677
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