(CNSNews) – Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) suggested Monday that the U.S. settlement of a 37-year-old legal claim that will leave the Iranian regime $1.7 billion richer may have amounted to part of a “ransom” for the release of five Americans held in Iran.
Secretary of State John Kerry took pains in several media interviews to stress that three major weekend developments related to Iran were unrelated.
They were the arrival of the nuclear deal’s “implementation day” and ensuing lifting of sanctions; the release of pastor Saeed Abedini and four other Americans incarcerated in Iran; and the settling of the outstanding Iranian claim worth $400 million, plus an additional $1.3 billion in interest.
Kerry told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer the claim payout was “completely separate from what we were doing with respect to the nuclear agreement,” and that the nuclear deal and prisoner release were “not linked distinctly.”
He also told Fox News it was “absolutely a coincidence” that the nuclear deal sanctions relief and release of the prisoners had occurred on the same day, explaining that the release could in fact have taken place several months ago, but was delayed by “a snag.”
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2 comments:
I could care less what any Rino has too say at this point. They ALL had a chance to STOP this but they caved AGAIN. So now they are ALL running around pumping their fists as if they give a damn. They Really Have Worn That Game out.
GOP = GIVING
OBAMA
PLEASURE
The money was FROZEN ASSESTS! It belonged to Iran and its citizens in the first place. It was never your money and it was never the American governments money.
In the Clinton administration when we put sanctions on Iraq it kept important stuff like medicine from getting in. Half a million Iraqi children died as a result and the Secretary of State said the deaths were worth the price of the sanctions.
With a foreign policy like that it's no wonder we have to fear radical suicide attacks.
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