A growing number of Senate Democrats are calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to withhold $6 billion in funds that had been set to be released to Iran following Hamas’ deadly terror attack against Israel over the weekend.
Last month, six Americans who had been wrongfully imprisoned in Iran were freed in exchange for the Biden administration authorizing South Korean banks to unfreeze $6 billion in payment for Iranian energy products that the country had purchased. The funds will go through Qatar, and the White House has maintained that the money would be available to Iran only for humanitarian transactions involving items such as food, medicine and agricultural products.
The freed American prisoners were reunited with their families in the U.S. after spending “years of agony, uncertainty, and suffering,” Biden said last month.
But suspicions that Iran may have played a role in the shocking attack against Israel have many Republicans and even some Democrats urging…