The Biden administration promotes the line that the $6 billion ransom it has posted for the benefit of Iran has nothing to do with Iran’s support for terrorism and this line is faithfully parroted in the mainstream media, including Jennifer Griffin on Fox News. Gabriel Noronha has comprehensively refuted this assertion in an informative thread on Twitter/X. Readers can access Noronha’s thread via the Xeet below.

Secretary of State Blinken also parrots this line, but he isn’t stupid. He is wrong and even he knows it. He occasionally lets his guard drop on this point, as in the clip below.