The Obama administration paid the Iranian regime $340 million for each US hostage released by Iran.
Another brilliant deal by the Obama administration.
No need to worry.
Iran will likely spend the extra millions on education and child care.
Iranian leaders now say that US secured release of five citizens by awarding Tehran an extra $1.7BIL outside of deal https://t.co/drCcXQh4yc
— Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) January 20, 2016
The Free Beacon reported:
The leader of Iran’s Basij military organization claimed on Wednesday that the United States released $1.7 billion in cash assets to Iran “in a bid to buy [the] freedom of its spies held by Tehran,” according to the country’s state-controlled press.
Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the Basij commander, said that the $1.7 billion release, which purportedly includes the repayment by the United States of a $400 million debt and $1.3 billion in interest, was awarded to Iran in order to secure the release of five Americans who were freed by Iran over the weekend.
“The annulment of sanctions against Iran’s Bank Sepah and reclaiming of $1.7mln of Iran’s frozen assets after 36 years showed that the US doesn’t understand anything but the language of force,” Naqdi was quoted as saying on Wednesday during a speech before the Basic forces in Tehran.
This particular cash release was not formally part of the nuclear deal, Naqdi claimed.
“This money was returned for the freedom of the US spy and it was not related to the [nuclear] negotiations,” he said.
In exchange for the release of the five prisoners, the United States pardoned or dropped sanctions on 21 Iranian accused of breaching sanctions by aiding the Islamic Republic’s illicit nuclear program.
SHOCKING: WH says Iran releasing US hostages after brutal captivity "a humanitarian gesture" https://t.co/euGgGFPctU pic.twitter.com/fZoVQn6jXN
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) January 20, 2016
