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Friday, January 24, 2020

‘Blood money’: Iranian strategist suggests ransoming US hostages 'to solve the sanctions problem'

A top political strategist and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps officer told supporters that Iran should kidnap hostages and ransom them back to the United States for "blood money."

"Here's how the IRGC generates funds. The IRGC detains a spy like Jason Rezaian," Hassan Abbasi can be heard saying in a video that surfaced on Wednesday. "The U.S. pleads for him to be released, and we ask them to pay for him. Our government gets paid $1.7 billion to hand over this spy. By detaining one spy, the IRGC earns the $1-2 billion, which it was supposed to receive from the government budget."

Rezaian is an Iranian American journalist who served as Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post before he was arrested and convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial in Iran in 2015. He was released during President Barack Obama's tenure as part of a prisoner swap on Jan. 16, 2016, the same day that U.S. officials paid Iran $1.7 billion.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds good, we can send them several of the Democrats that were so mad at Trump for killing Salomili or whatever his name was.

Anonymous said...

How about sending a drone to hover over Hassan Abbasi's abode.

Anonymous said...

His name was Ali goatfreeker. Yep that’s what I would do. Dumbass Trump has no issue turning those drones and smart bombs loose on your head. So alibaba let the bodies hit the floor

Anonymous said...

Hey how about Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, Obama and Clinton. That is 5, wonder how much they are worth to the Democrats???????????????????????