AHK - Executing inside If statements when condition isn't met - autohotkey

Question

I'm working in multiple JIRA systems, multiple projects within JIRAs, etc. I thought I had this working, but even when I select only one JIRA instance, it still tries to search.
The items I work with are in the form ABC-1234 (Where ABC is a various alpha key for the project - HWB, OFS, DCD, etc, and 1234 is the number of the item within the project.)
Unfortunately, they don't link well between the two different JIRA systems except for a simple text field. I made this to help me bounce between them, and also be able to immediately open items when someone mentions an item in email or Teams.
My issue is that it ALWAYS opens as a search (/issues/ instead of /browse/). And I can't figure out how it's getting into those If statements.
^+c:: ; Ctrl + Shift + c
originalclipboard := clipboard ; Save Original Clipboard contents
clipboard := "" ; empty the clipboard
send ^{c} ; Copy highlighted text
Clipwait ; Wait for clipboard to contain text
sleep 100
If InStr(clipboard,"HWB",false) ; Will affect if we're working with external or internal JIRA URLs later. Determined by JIRA key
jira = internal
If (InStr(clipboard,"OFS",false) or InStr(clipboard,"BAS",false) or InStr(clipboard,"DAS",false) or InStr(clipboard,"DCD",false))
jira = external
If InStr(clipboard,",",false) ; If we're just working with a comma delimited list
{
clipboard := StrReplace(clipboard,",","%2C") ; replace commas with URL language
clipboard = ?jql=key`%20in`%20(%clipboard%) ; add in the JQL search language
if jira = internal
Run https://jira.fis.dev/issues/%clipboard% ;internal URL for search
if jira = external
Run https://hwbdigitalstrategy.atlassian.net/issues/%clipboard% ;external URL for search
clipboard := originalclipboard ; Replace original clipboard contents
return
exit
}
If InStr(clipboard,"`r`n",false) ; If working with items on different lines (Excel or document)
{
clipboard := StrReplace(clipboard,"`r`n","%2C") ; replace newline character with commas in URL language
}
clipboard = ?jql=key`%20in`%20(%clipboard%) ; add in the JQL search language
if instr(clipboard,"%2C)"){ ; Error fixing - if the last character is comma before the ) remove the comma
clipboard := StrReplace(clipboard,"%2C)",")")
if jira = internal
Run https://jira.fis.dev/issues/%clipboard%
if jira = external
Run https://hwbdigitalstrategy.atlassian.net/issues/%clipboard%
clipboard := originalclipboard ; Replace original clipboard contents
return
exit
}
else
{
If jira = internal ; This kicks off if there was no commas or newline characters - one JIRA item will open straight into the item instead of searching
Run https://jira.fis.dev/browse/%clipboard%
if jira = external
Run https://hwbdigitalstrategy.atlassian.net/browse/%clipboard%
}
clipboard := originalclipboard ; Replace original clipboard contents
return