EXACTLY! They're expanding their military, building up their missile programs, and funding terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
Whaddayouknow? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/w...h-payment-prisoners.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0 U.S. Concedes $400 Million Payment to Iran Was Delayed as Prisoner ‘Leverage’ The State Department conceded for the first time on Thursday that it delayed making a $400 million payment to Iran for several hours in January “to retain maximum leverage” and ensure that three American prisoners were released the same day. For months the Obama administration had maintained that the payment was part of a settlement over an old dispute and did not amount to a “ransom” for the release of the Americans. Instead, administration officials said, it was the first installment of the $1.7 billion that the United States intends to pay Iran to reimburse it for military equipment it bought before the Iranian revolution that the United States never delivered. But at a briefing on Thursday, John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said the United States “took advantage of the leverage” it felt it had that weekend in mid-January to obtain the release of the hostages and “to make sure they got out safely and efficiently.” Republicans opposed to the nuclear deal President Obama reached with Iran have described the payment as ransom and a further sign of his administration’s feckless dealings with Tehran. Administration officials have said that the two transactions were negotiated entirely separately over a period of years. That they came together on one weekend reflected a desire on the part of Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, to set aside a series of disputes, complete the nuclear deal and try to remove irritants from the relationship between two longtime rivals.
We could have stolen their money and let them keep our citizens.....if we sold people for profit I guess....we stopped doing that after the Civil War
This is Denny's way of saying, I'm out of interns to argue the point and busy with barfo....get back to me in the morning and I'll reassign your debate partner
We paid the ransom, they were freed. We held out paying the ransom until they were released. The two were tied together, not separate deals as the president lied to us.
I heard you say this the first 50 times...you know I disagree with the definition but hey.....it's your movie
Pretty fuckin stupid. Like it had to be now. Why give them any obligated $$$ The dumb shits use our money like a sailor on a whore HOUSE.
yeah...it was their account for arms purchases in a Colorado bank that we froze under sanctions...We kept the weapons too...then there was the interest which the bank owed them
The US was holding Iran's money for ransom. I wonder what we're gonna get for the other 1.3 billion we owe them.