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US Tehran, Iran Embassy hostages finally compensated
Daily Mail ^
| Dec 24, 2015
| AFP
Posted on 12/25/2015 11:31:35 AM PST by GreyFriar
American hostages held in Iran will get up to $4m compensation each from the US government - 36 years after ordeal
The former 1979 American hostages in Iran will get financial compensation after US lawmakers included a payment provision in spending legislation
The men and women were taken hostage by militant Iranian student groups at the US embassy spending 444 days in captivity
They will be given restitution of up to $4.4million each, or $10,000 for each day they were held There were 66 original captives in the Iran hostage crisis with 13 released in November 1979, and one was released in July 1980 because of ill health
A total of 52 Americans were held the full 444 days in Iran
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3373559/US-Iran-hostages-compensated-decades-ordeal.html#ixzz3vMYHXpU0
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; US: Georgia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: georgia; hostages; iran; israel; jimmuh; jimmycarter; lebanon; waltermondale; waronterror
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At long last these folks are receiving compensation for their 444 days of captivity that began as an act of war against the US, that the US government has never recognized.
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:31:36 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
To: GreyFriar
The wrong taxpayers are paying.
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:33:58 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: GreyFriar
Why should the US taxpayers be on the hook for the Islamo Persian terrorists’ deeds?
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:34:19 AM PST
by
sagar
To: GreyFriar
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:35:42 AM PST
by
exnavy
(good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
To: GreyFriar
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:36:06 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: skinkinthegrass; onedoug; 2ndDivisionVet; ConorMacNessa; NKP_Vet; PROCON; Alamo-Girl; SargeK; ...
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:36:53 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: BenLurkin; sugar
Ddown the article is that the funds are coming from those held in escrow in France:
“Because the agreement that freed the hostages in January 1981 barred them from collecting restitution from the Iranian government, the victims spent decades unsuccessfully pursuing claims.”
“But when a US judge this year ordered France’s largest bank, BNP Paribas, to pay $8.9billion in fines to settle violations of US sanctions linked to Iran, funding for terrorism victims finally became available.”
The legislation, to my understanding, repealed the “bar to collecting restitution.”
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:42:35 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: GreyFriar
This is stupid. I should not be paying for this. Compensation should come from Iran.
To: GreyFriar
They should also give everyone a silver peanut on a display stand, to remind them of what happened.
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posted on
12/25/2015 11:53:13 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: GreyFriar
it should have come out of the money the boy unfroze and gave back to those that want to murder us.
then again, it never should have been unfrozen
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:00:44 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
To: GreyFriar
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:10:17 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
To: Chode
Isn’t that Achmedidjerdog?
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:18:13 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: plain talk
Can’t it at least come out of the $150B we’re sending Iran?
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:21:58 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: sagar
They aren’t. Read the article.
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:25:00 PM PST
by
CatOwner
(Trump + Cruz greater than 50% = GOPe on suicide watch)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
It sure looks like Ahmanutjob.
Carter has finally been surpassed as `America’s Worst President’.
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:25:56 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: GreyFriar
Why not take all the frozen Iranian assets, and divvy it up equally among each hostage?
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:26:25 PM PST
by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: GreyFriar
Yeah, we can’t let facts get in the way of a good rant by Freepers on Christmas Day. That quick to judgment gene doesn’t seem to be limited to just DEMs these days.
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:26:33 PM PST
by
CatOwner
(Trump + Cruz greater than 50% = GOPe on suicide watch)
To: GreyFriar
Isn’t 10000/day a bit much?
To: ROCKLOBSTER
one on the right definitely, the one on the left i'd give it odds of >90%
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posted on
12/25/2015 12:47:41 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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