US SAYS $400M PAYMENT WAS CONTINGENT ON RELEASE OF PRISONERS
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department says a $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on the release of American prisoners.
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DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)Nope
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)Fine by me.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)It was Iran's frozen assets being returned.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)take more hostages to get more of their frozen assets. Give a dog a treat when he eats your slippers and he will keep eating your slippers.
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)so why take them at all?
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)We're rewarding their good behavior (release of hostages), not their bad (taking them).
librechik
(30,663 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)librechik
(30,663 posts)timlot
(456 posts)Thankful that folks are free.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,044 posts)Seems like a good deal to me.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)With ransom the money is paid and then the hostages are released.
Here the hostages were released and then they got their own money back.
Aren't these the kind of "deals" Trumpy brags about doing?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)we got out of having to pay them about a billion dollars in interest.
It was a fucking fantastic deal.
karynnj
(59,475 posts)Them to later release the Americans.
It was still not a ransom. The word leverage makes more sense. We owed the money and it made sense to hold it up until we got everything else.
CNN 2 women both gave a mostly Republican explanation then called in a Republican congressmen.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)Let alone the next four years, it will all be emails, Benghazi, and probably this. Let alone all the other crap they throw out there.
Peace
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)The money was Iran's in the first place.
hibbing
(10,076 posts)I know, but for some stupid reason I sometimes flip over to Faux and it is always the same garbage over and over, they will distort this and add it to the list.
Peace
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Stop watching fox.
hibbing
(10,076 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I used to listen to Sean Hannity's radio show. I finally asked myself "wtf are you aggravating yourself for". The gray hair started coming in much slower.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Democat
(11,617 posts)Let the angry racists waste four years of their lives doing nothing.
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)It's not a thing and will never be a thing, no matter how the morons on the right try to make it one. Who cares?
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)We owed them the $ and we said we wouldn't pay unless hostages were returned. We only have them what we owed them. If they demanded a trillion bucks, I think I could work up some outrage.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)by wingnut lies. Iran has been working on this for 36 years so this was not related but it does makes sense to put everything on the table during a negotiation. President Obama is so much nicer than me.