About That Recent “Return of Assets” to Iran . . .
Remember that $400 million ransom payment return of assets we recently sent to Iran? You know, the one made in cash, using foreign currency obtained in Europe, by a cargo plane immediately before 4 US citizens held hostage by Iran detained by Iran were released? The cash payment I wrote about previously here – and again here – and mentioned yet again here?
Well, it appears that the gang of idiots screwing up US foreign policy “by the numbers” current Administration has recently acknowledged that cash payments in foreign currency made to Iran didn’t stop after the first payment. The total paid in cash to Iran amounted to far more than the original $400M. Rather, the entire $1.7 billion in “returned assets” was apparently paid in foreign currency – e.g., in cash.
The first installment of $400M was sent to Iran on the day Iran agreed to release those US hostages detained US citizens: 17 January 2016. The Administration has now confirmed that the second and third payments of those “returned assets”, totaling another $1.3 billion, were made a few days after their release – on 22 January 2016 and 5 February 2016, respectively. They were also made in foreign currency.
Hmm. So, we made cash payments to an adversary that was at the time detaining a number of US citizens, and in return those US citizens were promptly released. To me that certainly sounds an awful lot like the textbook definition of something called a “ransom” – and a big honking ransom at that. And it was paid in cash.
But maybe that’s just me.
Oh, and if anyone’s wondering if this is a “big freaking deal”, it is – for two reasons. First, we have now established the principle that we will indeed pay ransom for US citizens held hostage by adversaries, at least sometimes. This is idiocy that even Jimmy “the Clueless” Carter did not commit.
And, second: cash generally cannot be traced. And $1.7 billion can fund a helluva lot of terrorist activity.
I really did not think I’d live long enough to see a US Administration more inept, foreign-policy wise, than Carter’s Clueless Crew. I was wrong. This gang of naive fools in DC today takes the cake.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Politics, Terror War
You hit the proverbial nail on the head, Hondo.
Your last sentence sums it all up.
What’s going on here, obama couldn’t kiss the arabians asses fast enough or far enough, now he is kissing the Iranians asses and they are the enemy of the Arabians….did I miss something?
Considering that the Norks have tested a confirmed 20 to 30 kiloton nuke* (yesterday, registered 5.0 seismic) and they’re hurting for money, how much do you think they’ll gouge Iran for cash in return for their nuclear secrets?
*Hiroshima was 10 kilotons, for reference.
I sent a Reuters article about the Norks to Jonn this morning.
As bad as Carter was (Public Utility, Trucking De-regulation) When Iran took our people, he did something no other President has done. Threatened Nuclear action. Sure he did it quietly, but I knew about it in 83. I had a Professor that was in Tehran hiding with the Canadians…they knew about it. Never would have got that with Reagan. Hell, he wouldn’t commit to actually killing Gaddafi so the French wouldn’t allow overflight. That was on the radio in Europe. Lot’s of things I don’t like about Carter, Reagan, Both Bushes, Clinton, and Obama. I’m just hard to please. Like if they married me for 4-8 years.
And yet the pinheads continued to wipe Carter’s nose in that mess, right up almost to when Mr Reagan was inaugurated.
But -Carter- of course was the one they feared.
To each their own, but damn if I’d base my opinion of our presidents on what a college professor and European radio “say” are facts. BUT like I said, to each their own.
Hey, it’s still a (mostly) free country. Believe what you want to believe.
But if you’re going to accept rumors as Gospel – no, Carter wasn’t alone. Some years ago I heard from sources much better placed than some unnamed “Canadians” (e.g., sources that were actually in a position to have possibly known what they were talking about) that there was a damn good reason Saddam Hussein never used chem/bio in either the Gulf War or Iraqi Freedom.
According to that source, it seems that word was passed quietly thru 3rd country diplomatic channels to Iraq that, “If you use chem or bio on our troops, we will respond – with nukes”.
That makes eminently more sense to me than Jimmy “I Fear Swimming Rabbits” Carter having the guts to even think about using nukes, much less threaten to use them.
This Administration has screwed us more than ID-SARC could ever dream of doing.
At least with IDC SARC, it would be enjoyable!
Is any other f this even legal?????
Saw this morning on FOX that it may be as high as 33.6 Billion in gold and non-US currency over the last two years.
Wouldn’t that be interesting … if accurate?
Funding those who would destroy us.
Not to worry folks. Those with “greater minds” than us assure us that “Death to America” doesn’t mean what it sounds like.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259641/kerry-irans-death-america-doesnt-mean-they-want-daniel-greenfield
“Those who destroy us”??? OBOZO is the one trying to destroy us!!!
What are we getting in return for all of this? Besides a future attack.
It was supposed to be a “great” deal according to horse face, canckles and oblowme, but I guess they meant is was great for Iran. How could those that have achieved so much in life in this country and by our system(s), hate it so much and want to change it (fundamentally). It obviously worked for them.
Obama’s Chickens are going to come home to roost in a very big way in a couple of years when he’s relaxing in Hawaii, collecting millions in book royalties and can blame someone else. He does make Jimmy Carter look like a genius in so many ways. Unfortunately, the world is so much more complicated now than it was when Carter was in office, and the consequences of his ineptitude to the United States will be nothing short of disastrous. And a big portion of the blame will fall on the shoulders of that self serving traitor John Kerry, who will also be living the good life as a senior statesman. If these people weren’t so stupid, they would have a shred of shame. I truly fear for my children and grandchildren.
Dan Hyatt – I presume you’ve seen this but if not . . . you might enjoy seeing it. (smile)
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/116636