Obama Gave Iran $400 Million Allegedly for Ransom

Remember the four Navy soldiers detained by Iran at the start of the year? According to a bombshell report, the Obama administration airlifted $400 million worth of cash to the rogue nation right around the same time that the soldiers were released.

“Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane,” The Wall Street Journal reported, adding that according to the administration, the money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement.

“With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” President Barack Obama said at the time, referring to a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed in 1979.

“As we’ve made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim … were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home,” State Department spokesman John Kirby added this week.

Should we believe them, though?

Not necessarily, according to Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican who called the $400 million “a $1.7 billion ransom to the ayatollahs for U.S. hostages.”

“While Americans were relieved by Iran’s overdue release of illegally imprisoned American hostages, the White House’s policy of appeasement has led Iran to illegally seize more American hostages,” added Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, according to Fox News.

He was correct. Since the hostage situation in January, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has arrested two American citizens. The most recent victim was Robin Shahini, who according to The Washington Post flew to Iran earlier this year, only to be unjustly arrested on July 12 “on suspicion of crimes against the Islamic Republic.”

Here’s a question: Should we really be offering money, settlement or not, to a country that detains our soldiers and arrests our citizens? How about to a country that is considered to be the number one sponsor of terrorism?

State Department finds Iran is top state sponsor of terror @CNNPolitics https://t.co/YyRqRHZijB giving them 400 million is not #treason ?

— conqistdr (@Conqistdr) August 3, 2016

I think we should not, but clearly, Obama and his top officials disagree. They believe that appeasement via diplomatic gestures like the proffering of money reduces tension between America and Iran — and thus perhaps lowers the likelihood of Iran acting naughtily?

Never mind the fact that Iran continues to misbehave…

Nobody could have predicted this; NOBODY.

Iran missile tests 'not consistent' with nuclear deal spirit: U.N. report https://t.co/1Yja8iPXZK

— Pradheep Shanker MD (@Neoavatara) July 11, 2016

H/T The Blaze

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Obama Gave Iran $400 Million Just As Hostages Were Being Released

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