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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
August 4, 2016
There’s a big media hoopla about Obama paying a $400 million ransom for four “Iranian American” prisoners before their release in January.
The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.
Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.
The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The settlement, which resolved claims before an international tribunal in The Hague, also coincided with the formal implementation that same weekend of the landmark nuclear agreement reached between Tehran, the U.S. and other global powers the summer before.
“With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.
Senior U.S. officials denied any link between the payment and the prisoner exchange. They say the way the various strands came together simultaneously was coincidental, not the result of any quid pro quo.
“As we’ve made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim…were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said. “Not only were the two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side, including, in the case of The Hague claims, by technical experts involved in these negotiations for many years.”
But U.S. officials also acknowledge that Iranian negotiators on the prisoner exchange said they wanted the cash to show they had gained something tangible.
I agree with Trump that the Iran deal was a bad deal, but I also don’t care if Iran has nuclear weapons as I think it would be good if they nuked Israel.
But this does make the US look extremely weak and pathetic, giving all of this cash to a third world country that’s threatening us.
Personally, I would have stripped the citizenship of these “Americans” which were held captive in Iran, and told them “hey, they’re your people – do what you want with them.”
How ridiculous is it that Iranians living in Iran get arrested by the Iranian government and it’s our problem? Because they were awarded citizenship in our country through fraud?
It’s cartoonish.
