Iran Wants “Billions” to Release U.S. Hostages Still
Being Detained, by Josie Rudd, 10/20/16,
They’re trying to get the cash while they can – while Obama and Kerry are
still there to hand it over. Iran is mocking us, and playing
our leaders for the fools they are.
The
Washington Free Beacon reports
– Iran is seeking “many billions of dollars” in payments from the United States
in exchange for the release of several U.S. hostages still being detained in
Iran, according to reports by Iran’s state-controlled press that are reigniting
debate over the Obama administration’s decision earlier this year to pay Iran
$1.7 billion in cash.
Senior Iranian
officials, including the country’s president, have been floating the
possibility of further payments from the United States for months. Since the
White House agreed to pay Tehran $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year as part
of a deal bound up in the release of American hostages, Iran has captured
several more U.S. citizens.
Future payments to
Iran could reach as much as $2 billion, according to sources familiar with the
matter, who said that Iran is detaining U.S. citizens in Iran’s notorious Evin
prison where inmates are routinely tortured and abused.
Iranian news sources close to the country’s Revolutionary Guard
Corps, or IRGC, which has been handling prisoner swaps with the United States,
reported on Tuesday that Iran expects “many billions of dollars to release”
those U.S. citizens still being detained.”
“We should wait and
see, the U.S. will offer … many billions of dollars to release” American
businessman Siamak Namazi and his father Baquer, who was abducted by Iran after the United States paid Iran the $1.7 billion, according to the country’s Mashregh News outlet, which
has close ties to the IRGC’s intelligence apparatus.
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