Who’s Funding the Chaos in the Middle East | It’s Closer to Home Than You Think.
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Iran. And you. Midterms are coming. Sick of the Middle East? Too bad — it’s not sick of you. Every phone, every tank of gas, every box on your porch floats through waters patrolled by men who make school kids chant “Death to America” before breakfast. Bridget Toomey, Iran and terrorism expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, pulls back the curtain on who’s bankrolling the chaos: Iran and its proxy network, from the Houthis choking the Red Sea to the squeeze on Saudi Arabia and global oil. The “ragtag militia” you’ve heard about? It’s a well-funded war machine…
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