A new study estimates that Iran’s military spending could increase by $4.8 billion under the new nuclear deal, including a 50 percent budget increase for its terror-linked paramilitary force.
According to the study by the American Action Forum, the deal would generate roughly $140 billion in funds for Iran due to sanctions relief and unfreezing of assets.
Iran reports spending about 3.4 percent of its budget on defense and about 65 percent of its defense budget on its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite force charged with defending Islamic law that actively supports terrorist organizations across the Middle East.
WNU Editor: With the Middle East now engulfed by war .... this $5 billion increase is probably on the low end .... and much of it will go to modernizing its military and not to its "terror-linked paramilitary force".
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