If you disarm a person trying to murder you, you don't hand the weapon back to them because "it belongs to them".
They have been openly threatening us. We must listen to what they say.
They are behind the bloodshed in Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East for decades.
They have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans.
They are holding Americans hostage via their proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah.
We would be imbeciles to freely give them any money in any fashion. And we are doing it.
How would the families of those men killed and injured with Iranian money and arms feel if we just handed them that money?
How long have we been withholding Iran’s money from Iran?
What gives us the right to withhold Iran’s money from Iran?
How much of what Iran has been doing (I abhor Islam, terrorist and totalitarian regimes) is due to us making them do as we say in order to have the money that rightfully belongs to them?