Reporters, Top Biden Spox John Kirby Share Hearty Laugh Over Biden’s $6 Billion Gift To Iran
Reporter: On the $6 billion, I’m trying to figure out if you’re saying that policy hasn’t actually changed in any way or just that you aren’t willing to talk about changes that may have happened —
MR. KIRBY: Bingo.

Reporter: — in the last 24 hours.
MR. KIRBY: It’s the last one.
Reporter: Okay. All right, and — (laughter) — lovely, thank you for clarifying.

John Kirby Sidesteps Why U.S. Can’t Just “Come Out And Say” Iran Won’t Get $6 Billion Gift
On 10/12/2023, FOX News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked, “on the $6 billion, we know that a hundred senators were told on Tuesday night that the plan was basically to leave any requests for withdrawals pending indefinitely. And now we know that House Democrats were told by the Deputy Treasury Secretary behind closed doors this morning pretty much the same, with one added layer — that there’s an agreement with Qatar not to let those funds be dispersed. I just — why is it that you won’t come out and say that the U.S. does not intend to let this money get — go to Iran?

MR. KIRBY: Jacqui, we — we’ve always had — since the beginning, we’ve always had the ability to provide oversight over the disbursement of these funds. We’ve always had the option, if we wanted it, to look at transactions and to make a call about whether we found it valid or not. That has not changed.

Heinrich: Is — is it because we think that freezing it, essentially, again would complicate any negotiations with Iran or our ability to get Americans home in the future?

MR. KIRBY: I’m not going to go into any more detail.

John Kirby Feigns Ignorance On Why Biden Admin Forced To Evacuate Citizens From So Many Countries
Heinrich: Okay. And then on the overland and by sea and — and by land efforts. I guess, why is it that we find ourselves in so many situations trying to get Americans out and that it’s largely happening, you know, not through a government effort, but we’re telling, you know, civilians to find their way across a border in a warzone. Happened in Ukraine. It — you know, it — why is that we’ve found ourselves in that position so many times it seems?

MR. KIRBY: In what position exactly?

Reporter: Where we’re directing American citizens to basically find their way — their own way to U.S. help on the other side, whereas you’ve got other countries that are sending their military in or are doing evacuations in a more formal way.

MR. KIRBY: Well, first of all, Americans and dual passport holders live all over the world. And sometimes they choose to live in places where — where bad things happen. You know, we’re not in a — we’re not in a position of lecturing to Americans where they can go live, work, or travel, recreate. Number two, they don’t have to tell us that they’re there. So, sometimes it’s really hard to get a sense of what the population is.

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Biden Spox Share Hearty Laugh Iran $6B, Sidesteps Iran Won’t Get $6B, Why Evacuate So Many Countries