So there it is. The ransom has been demanded.
Yes, Unfortunately, the Europeans have developed a habit of paying them.
I hope, for the sake of all the Allies, that they do not, and hold firm.
If Iran gets a single inch at this point in the nuclear showdown, we will lose this fight, and they will get nukes without paying any price but what they have paid already. We will not be able to stop them without destroying them and the will to destroy them is not yet there.