Montana Sen. Jon Tester on Tuesday called for $6 billion in Iranian oil assets used in a recent American prisoner swap to be immediately refrozen after the Hamas terror attacks against Israel.
The position from Mr. Tester, who is one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2024, departed from the Biden administration and most of his Democratic colleagues.
While U.S. officials have not cited direct links from Iran to Hamas’ attacks that killed more than 1,000 Israelis and at least 14 Americans, Tehran has long propped up Hamas and other terrorist activities with money, training and weapons.“We have said since the beginning that Iran is complicit in this attack in a broad sense because they have provided the lion share of the funding to the military wing of Hamas,” Mr. Sullivan told reporters.
He also defended President Biden’s prisoner swap deal with Iran, in which the U.S. agreed in September to lift sanctions on $6 billion in oil revenue in exchange for the release of five Americans.
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