Posted on 09/11/2023 1:43:00 PM PDT by DFG
The latter
And yet, the Jews will overwhelmingly vote for Biden in 2024.
$6 billion is a lot of money Iran can use for their nuke program.
A going rate of over a billion an American prisoner?
Sounds like time for Iran and friends to take a few more American prisoners!
Biden gives Iran a $1 Billion per prisoner released.
Is this sustainable???
I always think of Robert Levison who has been held a prisoner in Iran since 2007. His wife and seven children are still waiting for his release with over 25 million in reward money out there. From the Washington Post: Iran last month acknowledged for the first time that it had an open court case involving Levinson, who was detained on Iran’s Kish Island on March 9, 2007. The official response to a family complaint filed in 2016 with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances was the first formal indication he may be in Iran’s custody and alive since 2011, when his captors sent his family photos of him chained and dressed as a Guantanamo detainee.
He should be first in line.
He was presumably CIA, but the precedent of buying hostages back is terrible and would only endanger more than it saved IMO. Very unfortunately.
No mention of the names of the Iranians given to Iran, or explanation of why one is going to a third country and two are remaining here in the US?
Very curious about the two remaining and what they were charged with in the US in the first place.
Namazi ...Trite Parsi’s buddy in the pro regime NIAC Iran lobby.
NIAC... has a professor at Oberlin College involved in the political attack on a bakery that ended up getting the college in trouble; I wonder if the two Iranians the Biden admin is releasing but allowing to remain in the US are college propagandists like this guy:
Mahallati served as Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations from 1987 to 1989. During his tenure, the Iranian government carried out a systematic extermination of political prisoners and other dissidents... Mahallati denied the 1988 massacre as “nothing but propaganda” and “fake information.”
Related to Iranian Democratic megadonor Hassan Nemazee?
Iran has absurdly instructed Hamas that The White Hospice will pay even more for the kidnapped Americans, without even including the rest!
What was the takeaway from the Imbecile's press confab today?
"Since the president’s last statement on Saturday afternoon, Biden announced Monday that he has “deployed experts” to help “consult with and advise Israeli counterparts on hostage recovery efforts.”
No forces on readiness, no national prayer plea, no attempt at unity, NOPE, the White Hospice just completely telegraphed to Hamas -- we are going to give you more hostage payoffs. Like billions. You all wait and see.
Stephen Miller, you need to have President Trump pre-empt this with a flaming arrow shot over The White Hospice bow this coming Monday in Iowa.
"Anyone in the United States Government who pays ransom, who even talks ransom, for any American hostage, will be prosecuted under 18 US Code §2339B by the TrumpII Administration and taken into federal custody on Day One. Yugely.And I quote: "The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 added specific code to the Federal criminal law directly prohibiting the so-called President Biden from negotiating with terrorist. 18 USC §2339B prohibits facilitating material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations when discussing no ransom nor negotiations with terror groups who kidnap US persons for money. On Day One of the TrumpII Administration, I will force Hamas to release ALL of their prisoners, and WITHOUT a single. American. dollar. paid. in. ransom."
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