Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., won\u2019t say if he will take up a House of Representatives bill freezing the $6 billion released to Iran by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
Schumer gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor last week, condemning the rise of antisemitism in America as well as the Oct. 7 surprise terrorist attacks on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n
Iran has been a staunch supporter of Hamas amid the Palestinian terrorist organization\u2019s war with Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, prior to the war, the Biden administration unfroze $6 billion in Iranian funds from banks in South Korea to Qatar in a prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n
The House passed a bill last week to re-freeze the Iranian funds and the bill is awaiting action in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the Hamas attacks, Schumer told the New York Post\u00a0that there \u2018would be no Hamas without Iran\u2019 and that he was confident Iran wouldn\u2019t see a dime of the $6 billion.<\/p>\n
However, Schumer\u2019s office did not respond when asked by Fox News Digital if the top Senate Democrat would be taking up the House legislation.<\/p>\n
The Senate majority leader has been a vocal supporter of Israel, condemning the anti-Israel protests in America while batting down calls for a cease-fire in the war.<\/p>\n
In his Senate floor speech last week, Schumer \u2014 the top Jewish lawmaker in Congress \u2014 condemned the rising antisemitism in America following Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel, calling it a \u2018five-alarm fire that must be extinguished.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018There is no question that antisemitism is a serious problem in America,\u2019 Schumer said on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n
\u2018In general, Jewish Americans represent 2% of the U.S. population, yet we are the targets of 55% of all religion-based hate crimes recorded by the FBI,\u2019 the Senate majority leader continued.<\/p>\n
\u2018This problem has been steadily worsening in recent years, but after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, hate crimes against Jewish Americans have skyrocketed,\u2019 he noted.<\/p>\n
Schumer said that the \u2018solidarity that Jewish Americans initially received from many of our fellow citizens was quickly drowned out by other voices\u2019 and that while \u2018the dead bodies of Jewish Israelis were still warm, while hundreds of Jewish Israelis were being carried as hostages back to Hamas tunnels under Gaza, Jewish Americans were alarmed to see some of our fellow citizens characterize a brutal terrorist attack as justified because of the actions of the Israeli government.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018A vicious, bloodcurdling, premeditated massacre of innocent men, women, children, the elderly \u2013 justified!\u2019 Schumer said. \u2018Even worse, in some cases, people even celebrated what happened, describing it as the deserved fate of quote, colonizers, and calling for quote, glory to the martyrs, who carried out these heinous attacks.\u2019<\/p>\n
The Iranian regime\u2019s organized plan to aid Hamas in its massacre of 1,300 people, including 30 Americans, was front and center in the thinking of the dictator who rules over Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to claims in a new think tank report.<\/p>\n
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a shocking report earlier this year, noting that Khamenei hinted on two different occasions, in 2022 and 2023, at \u2018the complete conquest.\u2019<\/p>\n
According to a MEMRI translation from Khamenei\u2019s propaganda outlet, Kayhan, the plan of mass murder was engineered by the late Iranian global terrorist Qassem Soleimani in 2020. The U.S. military assassinated Soleimani in early January 2020 for his overseeing the killing of over 600 American military personnel.<\/p>\n
Kayhan wrote, according to the translation, that in August 2023, \u2018The significance is that, last year, the Leader [Khamenei] gave \u2018the promise of the imminent conquest,\u2019 and this year he gave \u2018the announcement of the complete conquest,\u2019 and Operation Al-Aqsa Flood is part of this imminent conquest. This promise and announcement, along with the clarity and power of [Khamenei\u2019s] statements and positions in his meeting [with leaders and ambassadors of Islamic countries] on the occasion of the Prophet [Muhammad\u2019s] birthday, have profound significance and content.\u2019<\/p>\n
Additionally, a top United Nations humanitarian aid official was ripped last month by an Israeli ambassador after sharing an image on X, formerly Twitter, showing him shaking hands with Iran\u2019s foreign minister, who reportedly helped Hamas plan the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths posted that he held a meeting in Geneva with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian about the \u2018devastating\u2019 situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the \u2018critical\u2019 need to deliver aid to the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Amirabdollahian had taken part in at least two planning meetings in Lebanon with the terrorist groups Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad ahead of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which launched the Middle East war.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Benjamin Weinthal and Greg Norman contributed reporting.<\/p>\n\n
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