UK-born Iranian analyst Younes Sadaghiani is introduced to the Norwegian Foreign Office’s massive aid transfers to allies of Russia and China — including the Iranian regime and even North Korea.
Ostensibly given as humanitarian aid to refugees, these funds allow these regimes to reallocate their own resources, freeing up cash for repression, sponsorship of terrorism, nuclear programmes, and even the construction of Hamas’ underground terror tunnels.
In the interview, Sadaghiani also comments on then-Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (now Norway’s Prime Minister) dancing in the Oslo Pride parade at the same time as his Foreign Ministry was engaging in extensive diplomatic and economic cooperation with these regimes.
Norway presents itself as a neutral peace negotiator and middle-man nation, but in practice it has gone far beyond that — maintaining unusually close ties with authoritarian and terrorist-sponsoring regimes while displaying strong divergence from the Trump administration and clear Netanyahu/Israel-phobia.