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Originally Posted by Topspinmo
Maybe multi-billion dollar release of assets had something to do with it? You know the billions in January that got transferred?
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The return of Iranian assets was negotiated as part of the nuclear stand down deal which was finalized in the summer of 2015 with the money to be released in Jan 2016. It was coming to Iran unless we were going to abrogate our pledge and break our word as specified in the agreement which the US and many other countries signed. So Iran was getting that money back. They didn't release our lost sailors because they got something in return. They weren't hostages, they weren't bargained. They were humanely treated and humanely released. You and I do not see the same things looking at the same picture.
I thought
the talking point was supposed to be that the US taxpayers "paid" Iran to sign the agreement. At least you got it right that we didn't pay them anything. We gave them their own money that we had been holding in sanction and refunded a weapons payment we never delivered to them, when they agreed for 15 years to stop enriching uranium, destroy their stockpile, destroy their advanced centrifuges and submit to international inspections.