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Posted on 12/24/2015 2:48:40 PM PST by iowamark
The US victims of the Iran hostage crisis are to receive compensation 36 years after their ordeal, reports say.
Each of the 53 hostages or their estates will receive up to $4.4m (£3m), according to a US spending bill passed last Friday.
The victims of other state-sponsored terror attacks such as the US embassy bombings in East Africa in 1988 will also be eligible.
The hostage-taking lasted 444 days and led the US to break off ties with Iran.
The decision to award compensation follows a controversial deal between world powers and Iran over its nuclear programme.
"Those negotiations resulted in an understanding that an inevitable next step in securing a relationship was to address the reason for the rupture, which was our kidnapping and torture," former hostage Rodney Sickmann told the New York Times.
The hostages have long fought for restitution, but the agreement that secured their release barred them from making such claims and their attempts were repeatedly blocked by the courts, including an appeal denied by the Supreme Court.
Congress was also unable to pass laws granting them compensation.
The money for compensation is likely to come from a huge $9bn fine for French bank Paribas for violating sanctions against Iran, Sudan and Cuba, the New York Times reported.
About $1bn will go into a fund for victims of terrorism and an additional $2.8bn will be set aside to help the victims of the 9/11 attacks and their families.
The new law allows for payments of up to $10,000 for each day of captivity, while spouses and children are eligible for a payment of up to $600,000. Initial payments are due within a year.
Thirty-seven of the 53 hostages held after a mob stormed the US embassy in Tehran are still alive.
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I was hoping by Iran.
Should have been an easy concession to get in the “talks”
Let’s not forget that one of the terrorist leaders became the president of Iran.
You’re right. This money should have come from those Iranian accounts held by the US government and not the American taxpayers.
Money is money, but it sure would have helped these people to have had the money back then, after their world had been turned upside down. Maybe this is supposed to make people feel better about that disasterous Iran Deal.
How many of them have died?
I FORGOT that we HAVE some of their money!!!
how is it NOT coming out of that?!?!!
I don’t even think Rome did this nonsense at the end.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/30/liveblog-paris-climate-conference-day-1/
ahmadinejad was a small fry then, known, but a small fry
the woman known as SISTER MARY recently posed for pictures with Obama in Paris!
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vERB-8o5m4Q/hqdefault.jpg
Now, how about compensation for the families of the victims of Benghazi paid for by the Clinton Foundation.
Should have come from Jimmy Carter.
Exactly. Why is the US taxpayer paying (vs. Iran)??
‘bout $200/day
Agreed. And knowing this administration how can we ensure that the money is even being paid to the actual victims and isn't a pretext for another cash grab?
plus epenses man i miss ol rockfish
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