Obama just paid 400 million in ransom to Iran

[GuerrillaUnReal]

I don't even understand this country anymore.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/arkansas-sen-cotton-rips-obama-400m-payment-iran-article-1.2741773

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Sunday ripped into President Obama over a $400 million cash payment made to Iran in January within hours of four American hostages in Tehran being released, comparing the controversial deal to something more likely to be completed by a “drug cartel.”

“The administration has consistently stonewalled Congress and the American people. We didn't know that it was paid for with bills that could be easily laundered and used for terrorism,” Cotton said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I think it's really shocking to most Americans that the United States government was acting like a drug cartel...stacking cash on a pallet and wrapping it in cellophane and flying it in an unmarked aircraft to give to the world's worst state-sponsored terrorism,” Cotton said.

The White House has been on the defensive since a report in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal provided the extraordinary details surrounding the mysterious cash payment to Iran.

U.S. delivered $400M to Iran same day American hostages freed
According to the paper, an unmarked cargo plane loaded with wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currencies was secretly flown into Iran on the same day the U.S. exchanged seven Iranians for four American citizens who had been detained. The Obama administration secretly arranged the Jan. 17 airlift after negotiating a $1.7 billion settlement with Iran relating to the sale of military equipment dating to 1979, according to The Journal â€" which all came just after the U.S. and five other countries reached a landmark nuclear deal with Iranian officials.

The White House has maintained that the money was not a ransom and that the quick succession of deals was simply a product of diplomatic channels having been opened after a decades-long freeze.

“This wasn’t some nefarious deal,” Obama said Thursday. “The notion that we would somehow start (paying ransom) now in this high-profile way and announce it to the world … defies logic”


A plane arrives in Geneva carrying American hostages that were released from Iran on Jan. 17. (MARTIAL TREZZINI/EPA)
Cotton, however, said Sunday that, “it doesn't really matter what President Obama says.”

Obama insists $400M in cash to Iran was not ransom payment
“It matters what the Iranians think, and it matters what dictators, terrorists and gangsters all around the world think and they clearly think that this was a ransom payment,” Cotton added.

“There was a legitimate claim against the United States,” the Virginia senator said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We don't pay for hostages. We don't negotiate for hostages,” he said. “We are a nation of laws. And if there's a claim that we think we owe something on, we try to bargain the best deal we can. And that's what we ought to do."

An unmarked plane, pallets of foreign currency, one plane with the hostages waiting on one end of the airstrip until the other plane landed, 400 million going to the country my government has told me is the chief creator of international terrorism?

Seems legit.

[Jackstar]

Seems legit.

SEEN IT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory

[21st Century Man]

AP and state department confirms today.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_APNEWSALERT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-18-15-38-54

STATE DEPT. SAYS $400 MILLION CASH PAYMENT TO IRAN WAS CONTINGENT ON AMERICAN PRISONERS' RELEASE

[chefist]

And Iran has a new US hostage...go figure...

[bateman]

Another right-wing conspiracy!

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Another right-wing conspiracy!

The republicans are in on it too, otherwise it wouldn't have happened. They just try to appear they hate it. They want that oil pipeline that runs from the Caspian Sea through Iran to the Persian Gulf. The other pipeline runs through Afghanistan and Pakistan and both of those countries are not nearly as stable as Iran.

[Uncle Duke]

The republicans are in on it too, otherwise it wouldn't have happened. They just try to appear they hate it. They want that oil pipeline that runs from the Caspian Sea through Iran to the Persian Gulf. The other pipeline runs through Afghanistan and Pakistan and both of those countries are not nearly as stable as Iran.

Guess that means a key shaped cake went with the cash.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Guess that means a key shaped cake went with the cash.

Probably chevron-shaped.

[Jackstar]

The republicans are in on it too, otherwise it wouldn't have happened. They just try to appear they hate it.

[albrecht]

http://circa.com/politics/us-gave-17-billion-to-iran-as-hostages-were-released-four-times-original-amount
Obama gave 1.7 billion, not as earlier reported, 500 million to Iran in exchange for the hostages. Meanwhile:
https://news.usni.org/2016/09/06/iranian-boats-harass-another-u-s-navy-patrol-coastal-ship-persian-gulf

[Jackstar]

When pressed to say who requested the cash, the briefers could not remember, the source said.

Something wicked this way comes.

[albrecht]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-may-received-much-33-6-billion-cash-gold-payments-u-s/


http://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-114-ba09-wstate-mdubowitz-20160908.pdf

[136 or 142]

It was Iran's money in the first place.  First Senator Cotton complained that the hostage release wasn't negotiated as part of the deal on the Iranian nuclear weapons development, now he complains about this negotiation (if there was a negotiation.)

Cotton is just your typical sleazebag lying Republican.

[chefist]

It was Iran's money in the first place.  First Senator Cotton complained that the hostage release wasn't negotiated as part of the deal on the Iranian nuclear weapons development, now he complains about this negotiation (if there was a negotiation.)

Cotton is just your typical sleazebag lying Republican.

You really are the biggest piece of colon clogging smegma on BG you 'Correct the Record' trash-hole....

[albrecht]

You really are the biggest piece of colon clogging smegma on BG you 'Correct the Record' trash-hole....

Besides giving radical Muslims much more money to give to terrorists and help them in their campaign to get nukes it also set a precedent that the US will pay you if you kidnap some Americans putting us all more at risk. What is interesting is that normally Obama supports radicals of the Sunni type and this is the first time, that I know of, where he is giving money to the other side (from his perspective.)

On the happy side they named a blood-sucking parasite after Obama.
http://www.popsci.com/newly-discovered-blood-fluke-is-named-after-obama

[136 or 142]

You really are the biggest piece of colon clogging smegma

I believe you have me confused with Donald Trump.

[Astrid Galactic]

On the happy side they named a blood-sucking parasite after Obama.
http://www.popsci.com/newly-discovered-blood-fluke-is-named-after-obama

Still not as toxic as the one we currently have in the White House.

In the meantime, I've been looking for an ignore button for the parasite we have in here. No luck. Have been doing it the old fashioned way by just not wasting my time reading any of that disgusting brain eating super smegma's posts.

[Jackstar]

In the meantime, I've been looking for an ignore button for the parasite we have in here. No luck.

[136 or 142]

In the meantime, I've been looking for an ignore button for the parasite we have in here. No luck. Have been doing it the old fashioned way by just not wasting my time reading any of that disgusting brain eating super smegma's posts.

It's not my problem that you can't handle the truth.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Just got an email from Ed Royce about "No more ransoms to Iran"-these are the guys that are giving hundreds of millions to the Taliban in paper bags.
Politicians are so unbelievable.

[GuerrillaUnReal]

I don't understand how a guy who pulled off arguably the most ballsy Presidential move of my lifetime by risking his Presidency going after Bin Laden can be such a weak pussy mark when it comes to Iran.

[Dr. MD MD]

I don't understand how a guy who pulled off arguably the most ballsy Presidential move of my lifetime by risking his Presidency going after Bin Laden can be such a weak pussy mark when it comes to Iran.

Didn't they just drop their "Bin Laden" in the sea so that no one could identify him...er, I mean to avoid triggering and traumatizing all us Americans? And didn't the team that "took him out" mysteriously get blown up about a week later?! 

[GuerrillaUnReal]

Didn't they just drop their "Bin Laden" in the sea so that no one could identify him...er, I mean to avoid triggering and traumatizing all us Americans? And didn't the team that "took him out" mysteriously get blown up about a week later?! 

I'm just going by their story. These are the same people who told me our embassy was attacked and Americans killed because of an online video.

[albrecht]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/us-iran-payments-wire-transfer-228324