Obama pays Iran $400 million for prisoners
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From what I heard, technically it was releasing payment for a previous deal that had been withheld but I understand how this looks and why it shouldn't have been done in a quid pro quo manner.
They way I see it, Iran was holding onto the prisoners as long as we held back on the cash. So it was quid pro quo.
Also, it was CASH. Doesn't someone in Iran have a smart phone with a banking app?
Also, it was CASH. Doesn't someone in Iran have a smart phone with a banking app?
Really?
Axis of Evil and all, aren't they pretty much blocked from International banking by UN Resolution?
True, and we owe them the rest of the 1.2 billion also. People don't want to hear that we're refunding money they paid for armaments we decided not to deliver. With sanctions lifted, there's no legal grounds left not to refund the payments...
Here is one thing we could do with the $1.2 billion.
And as for the Iranian, I would surely support giving them $1.2 billion of military hardware. The Iranian people deserve all the pain and suffering we can inflict on them until they beg for forgiveness.
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That was abandoned in 1982, barring Congress acting, which it has, inadequately, IMO. However, once the deal was reached, whatever one may think of it, these refunds were not a voluntary matter, period. I know it's great political fodder, as if it were new, but, from a legal standpoint, it was not...
This "refund" of money was announced in January 2016. No secret deal. Sorry folks.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/17/politics/us-pays-iran-1-7-billion/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/17/politics/us-pays-iran-1-7-billion/
You're too educated to be so bloodthirsty. Vote for Trump then, He'll kill the families and waterboard the rest.
The Iranians are savages. They sponsor acts of terror around the world that kill thousands, including American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iranians do not need cash pay-out. The need a swift kick in the pants.
The key point though is that if you don't want an embassy in your country, kick them out. That is how civilized nations disagree. Seizing an embassy is what savages do. Nations cannot engage in diplomacy if savages attack embassies. The Iranians have never apologized for that act of savagery or acknowledged it was wrong.
And Obama adding another "accomplishment" for his "Worst President Ever" resume does not make me want to vote for Trump, but it is another in a long line of Democrat party chicanery.
And the other less than civilized groups in the neighborhood this week are looking at this and thinking to themselves, "Hmm. Grab a bunch of Americans sailors and get a planeload of cash. Hmm."
And the worst pain and suffering I can imagine inflicting on them is to leave the mullahs in charge of their crappy little country.
I conduct all my banking and bill paying in the dead of night in my unmarked plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsZPWsVNTqo
I have the tenderest emotions for my fellow Americans. I hold out allies in high regard. The Iraqis I fought against I respect.
It just seems like whenever Democrats act, America loses.
And telling me in January they were going to kick me in the groin in July does not make the kick, when it comes, any less painful.
Obama has just been a seven and a half year disaster. It is unavoidable that he wants to take the United States down a few notches.
We need an American Interests Section to represent the United States government in DC.
It just seems like whenever Democrats act, America loses.
And telling me in January they were going to kick me in the groin in July does not make the kick, when it comes, any less painful.
Obama has just been a seven and a half year disaster. It is unavoidable that he wants to take the United States down a few notches.
We need an American Interests Section to represent the United States government in DC.
It was ransom. Maybe payment has been years in the negotiation process. Maybe the prisoners weren't taken for the express purpose of getting a ransom. But the preponderance of evidence - and especially the timing of it all - indicates that we gave money to Iran and in return they released the prisoners. You can make your own value judgment of whether that was right or wrong, but might as well get the old head out of the Dasht-e Kavir Desert sand.
Wasn't ransom. No correlation between the money and the hostages being released.
U.S. Held Cash Until Iran Freed Prisoners
U.S. Held Cash Until Iran Freed Prisoners
I really don't like countries that make hostages of diplomats. If you don't want them in your country, expel them, but only savages make hostages of them. I wish the world would teach them that important lesson, in such a way that they will never forget it.
As for the ransom, surely a lawyer who is so clever at thinking up ways to circumvent and thwart the Constitution to injure the interests of Americans can come up with a clever way to circumvent and thwart international law in order to avoid giving $400 million to a country that has and will use the money to kill and injure Americans. If only he had the interests of the United States at heart...
As for the ransom, surely a lawyer who is so clever at thinking up ways to circumvent and thwart the Constitution to injure the interests of Americans can come up with a clever way to circumvent and thwart international law in order to avoid giving $400 million to a country that has and will use the money to kill and injure Americans. If only he had the interests of the United States at heart...
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