Iran's Terrorist Death Insurance Family Plan

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Thanks to the many tens of billions of dollars Iran gets in President Obama's nuclear deal, Palestinian terrorists' families can have financial security. (Ashraf Amra/Zuma Press/Newscom)

Terror State: Iran will give as much as $37,000 to families of a killed Palestinian terrorist, to undermine Israel’s deterrent practice of demolishing terrorists’ homes. Tehran’s cash comes from Obama’s nuclear deal.

Behind every successful terrorist is a great wife and family. That seems to be the idea of Wednesday’s announcement  from Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad Fateh Ali, that the world’s foremost terrorist state will be giving $7,000 to the families of “martyrs of the intifada in occupied Jerusalem,” plus another “$30,000 to every family whose home the occupation has demolished for the participation of one of its sons.” Officials with the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas attended Ali’s press conference.

It’s an obvious confirmation that Iran is waging full proxy war against the state of Israel — and that the Iran nuclear deal is directly responsible for Tehran ramping up this jihad.

Hamas leaders recently met in Tehran with the chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Al-Quds Force to discuss financing from the radical Islamic Iran regime, which reportedly increased after the deal last July. Hamas is only one of the Palestinian terrorist groups to which the Iranian ambassador is offering this lavish “death insurance.”

But Iran can do this only because President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated a “peace” pact with the notorious terrorist financier last year, unfreezing on the order of $150 billion in Iranian assets — plenty of dough for future bombings, not only against Israelis but against U.S. interests and personnel.

The payouts are especially disturbing because they directly negate Israel’s prevention strategy of destroying the homes of Palestinians found to be engaging in terrorist acts; with these “jihadist homeowner’s insurance benefits” thanks to the Iran nuclear deal, terrorists and their families can find new digs from which to plot future attacks.

“You’re in good hands with the terrorist state” might be a good slogan for Iran.

Meanwhile, Kerry on Thursday asked the House Foreign Affairs Committee not to renew the 2006 Iran Sanctions Act, which punishes Tehran for its nuclear and missile activities and which expires this year. Quick renewal would send a strong message that the U.S. is not playing dead against Iran’s belligerency and internal oppression, and it might well even obstruct some of Iran’s terrorism, and aggression against its more Western-friendly Muslim neighbor regimes.

Few Americans last year thought that the Obama nuclear deal with Iran would lead to U.S.-sponsored terrorist family home insurance. But it did.