I thought that money to IRAN was their money.. held in a freeze, here, until they “complied”. NO?
I have heard reporters make that clarification, but do so, seldom and therefore the reporters who don’t clarify, or mention it, carry the day, the lede and the news.
What is true? Did the USA house none of their money and freeze none of their assets?
a) unilaterally released by Soetoro with NO OTHER action by Congress or any Agency,
b) NOT simply - and safely- wired to Iranian banks or recognized banks that could do business with Iran, and
c) paid out by loading up pallets of cash in various unmarked bills and various national currencies as part of the release upon compliance? This stunk from the get-go!
Yeah, it supposedly was their money. Or at least that’s what we’ve been told all along. I don’t believe more than about 10% of “what I’ve been told all along” any more.
At any rate, imagine if for some reason you had a wad of money in your hand that belonged to your next door neighbor and then your neighbor kidnapped your kids. If you finally got your kids back after more than a year and your neighbor continued to threaten you, would you give the money back because “it was their money”? I wouldn’t.
I’m the kind of person who will walk back into a store and return the change if they give me too much or tell the checker that even though she swiped 4 cans of beans only 3 rang up. Because it’s the right thing to do. But there is something really wrong about the Iran situation. On so many levels.