it should have come out of the money the boy unfroze and gave back to those that want to murder us. then again, it never should have been unfrozen
Posted on 12/25/2015 11:31:35 AM PST by GreyFriar
American hostages held in Iran will get up to $4m compensation each from the US government - 36 years after ordeal
The former 1979 American hostages in Iran will get financial compensation after US lawmakers included a payment provision in spending legislation
The men and women were taken hostage by militant Iranian student groups at the US embassy spending 444 days in captivity
They will be given restitution of up to $4.4million each, or $10,000 for each day they were held There were 66 original captives in the Iran hostage crisis with 13 released in November 1979, and one was released in July 1980 because of ill health
A total of 52 Americans were held the full 444 days in Iran
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3373559/US-Iran-hostages-compensated-decades-ordeal.html#ixzz3vMYHXpU0
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The wrong taxpayers are paying.
Why should the US taxpayers be on the hook for the Islamo Persian terrorists’ deeds?
Ping
Ping.
An account of that event and a list of the hostages taken is at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
Ddown the article is that the funds are coming from those held in escrow in France:
“Because the agreement that freed the hostages in January 1981 barred them from collecting restitution from the Iranian government, the victims spent decades unsuccessfully pursuing claims.”
“But when a US judge this year ordered France’s largest bank, BNP Paribas, to pay $8.9billion in fines to settle violations of US sanctions linked to Iran, funding for terrorism victims finally became available.”
The legislation, to my understanding, repealed the “bar to collecting restitution.”
This is stupid. I should not be paying for this. Compensation should come from Iran.
They should also give everyone a silver peanut on a display stand, to remind them of what happened.
it should have come out of the money the boy unfroze and gave back to those that want to murder us. then again, it never should have been unfrozen
Isn’t that Achmedidjerdog?
Can’t it at least come out of the $150B we’re sending Iran?
Thanks GreyFriar.
They aren’t. Read the article.
It sure looks like Ahmanutjob.
Carter has finally been surpassed as `America’s Worst President’.
Why not take all the frozen Iranian assets, and divvy it up equally among each hostage?
Yeah, we can’t let facts get in the way of a good rant by Freepers on Christmas Day. That quick to judgment gene doesn’t seem to be limited to just DEMs these days.
Isn’t 10000/day a bit much?
one on the right definitely, the one on the left i'd give it odds of >90%
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