JIZYA: Obama paid $400M ‘ransom’ to Iran

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Reckless and absolute power without accountability.

The enemedia is certainly treating this differently than the alleged Iran Contra deal during Reagan’s second term, are they not? If you google Iran-Contra, all you’ll get are pages and pages excoriating President Reagan for a deal that doesn’t come near what Obama just did.  Where is their outrage now? Obama paid Iran ransom in the hundred’s of millions of dollars and his subversive action was not approved of by the United States Congress.

Where are the Senate hearings? And where is American hostage Bill Levinson?

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My fellow Americans, we are under siege by the left and we must fight. We must go on the offense. How we are (and we will yet) suffer unless we act.

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The enormous sums of American taxpayer dollars transferred to the world’s largest state sponsor of terror is treasonous and unconscionable. The hell that President Obama’s feckless submission to Iran will unleash in the coming years will turn history on its ear. While Obama attempts to burnish his catastrophic legacy, the fall-out from his treachery is going to blow up the world.

Obama paid $400M ‘ransom’ to Iran,” NY Post, August 3, 2016:

The Obama administration quietly shipped $400 million stacked on wooden pallets in an unmarked plane to Iran in January — just as Tehran was releasing four Americans who had been detained there, according to a report.

The huge cash load represented the first payment of a $1.7 billion debt that Iran, at an international tribunal in The Hague, claimed it was owed over a failed 1979 arms deal signed before the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday night.

The Obama administration was accused Tuesday night of making the cash-for-hostages deal by timing the payout to the release — but US officials said the money was simply part of settling the nearly 40-year-old debt under the terms of the historic nuclear agreement hammered out in 2015.

“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 told the Journal.

“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.”

However, US officials did admit that Iran wanted the cash in exchange for the Americans so Tehran could say it got something out of the detainees’ release, according to the Journal.

When President Obama talked about the release on Jan. 17, he said, “With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well.”

But he never mentioned the $400 million ­simultaneous payment.

US prisoners held by Iran included Saeed Abedini, Nosratollah Khosravi, Amir Hekmati, a former Marine, and Washington Post reporter Jason ­Rezaian.

The money was paid in euros and other currency acquired from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, since making a transaction with Iran in American dollars is illegal under US law.

A GOP opponent of the Iran nuke deal, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, accused Obama of shelling out “a $1.7 billion ransom to the ayatollahs for US hostages,” the Journal reported.

“This break with long-standing US policy put a price on the head of Americans, and has led Iran to continue its illegal seizures” of Americans, Cotton said.

Former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio tweeted the report Tuesday, saying, “Obama administration sent plan[e] load of cash to #Iran as ransom as part of deal on hostages. Just unreal.”

The US has long had a policy against paying ransom for hostages. In 2015, though, the Obama administration relaxed that policy after the seizures of Americans by ISIS, saying it would not prosecute captives’ relatives who wished to pay ransoms on their own. The government, in fact, will even help families communicate with militants.

Observers fear, though, that paying ransom only encourages more hostage-taking for profit.

Since the payment of the $400 million in January, two Iranian-Americans have been held by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

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SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
7 years ago

This ransom crap won’t happen with President Trump.

He would take some iranians hostage for a prisoner exchange – for starters – ratchet up the pressure on the pig ayatollahs to shame them in the eyes of the downtrodden Persian people.

Marg Bar Iran!
DEATH to Iran!

gerardo
gerardo
7 years ago

Pam. Without you and like minded folk, we would be kept ignorant of delevopments. Beware the day THEY jam the internet. It may be part of the agenda and it appears they have that power ie : They would love to con Vince you. Be Safe !

movingwaters
movingwaters
7 years ago
Reply to  gerardo

When they do, let us be in continual prayer for one another.

gerardo
gerardo
7 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

Amen to that !

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
7 years ago

do we have a congress anymore?

movingwaters
movingwaters
7 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

We have a very few, and they are constantly berated for standing up for the American people. The Senate Conservatives and the House Freedom Caucus are lights in the darkness. But if Hillary becomes POTUS, she will finish us off with even more gusto than Obama could muster. How people fail to see pure demonic evil controlling her is a mystery to me. But I was also shocked that they failed to see through Obama. We have been brain dead too long.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

You are right about the very few. Trouble is, they get no press even if their intent is to do the right thing. Because the press NEVER INTENDS to do the right thing.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

It appears not. They have gone into hiding to save their useless skins.
Then again, an undiscerning electorate put them into Congressional offices.

Patrick
Patrick
7 years ago

Paul Ryan and the rest of the useless GOP leadership are to busy excoriating Trump while they let Obama get away with murder. We don’t have an opposition party. The downfall of America is in clear view for even the most ignorant person to see. Obamas legacy is the destruction of the U.S.A. Traitors should hang!

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  Patrick

Oaths of office, as uttered at swearings-in, mean nothing to elected officials, President, VP, Senators and Representatives. Just formality. Just words.
Thank you, “Winston”.

Tanya
Tanya
7 years ago

How in all honesty can the Obumbler administration proclaim that this wasn’t a payoff? It doesn’t matter how they play this or try to sell it, it was a ransom payoff pure and simple. It just goes to show you the contempt that that this administration and god forbid a Clinton administration hold and will always hold for the American people.

Kook of the East
Kook of the East
7 years ago

I knew when I saw this story that it would get no play in the MSM.
Sure enuf…….
America may be gone.

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
7 years ago

FIRST THING,THAT DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE SHAH OF IRAN NOT THE AYATOLLA KOMINHISPANTS . AS AND FAR AS THE WORLD COURT , SINCE WHEN HAS THE USA EVER LISTENED TO A BUNCH OF POLITICAL HACKS FROM SOME CORRUPT DIRT WATER COUNTRY . OH WAIT , I FORGOT . OBAMA NOT A US CITIZEN,HE’S A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD .
THIS WAS A STRAIGHT UP PAYMENT OF A JIZYA TAX ON EVERY MAN WOMEN AND CHILD IN THE USA .

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

This most corrupt administration in recent history has consistently lied about Fast & Furious, weaponizing the IRS against political opponents, the disater of Obhammudcare, Benghazi, the Iran nuclear deal, and now this and the lamestream media has not lifted a damn finger to challenge them on any of it.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago

Jimmy Carter is still alive to witness this travesty with Iran, beginning in 1979 when he was “on watch”. May God reward him according to his works.

J.W.Lee
J.W.Lee
7 years ago

Seemed like a setup from the get go…far too many convenient “coincidences” and timing. Time for FOIA related investigation if Congress (once again) fails to act effectively.

Ram it Hitlery!
Ram it Hitlery!
7 years ago

Is anyone surprised that a Chicago thug would do something like this? Can you imagine the heinous crap that will come out of a Clinton administration led by known corrupt criminal Hitlery Rotten Cankles?

Craig
Craig
7 years ago

The filthy anti-American scum, rat obama and gold-digger moron Kerry, laundered money and sent financial support to Iran so they may further their terrorist goals. WHY are not these two pieces of S**T in jail? As Mr. Eastwood says, we are a nation of pus*ies.

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

“Just because it was delivered in cash, the day before the hostages were released, does not make it ransom” Obama . And he also got a bridge in bklyn to sell us, lmao

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