This is just too much. Iran’s president on NBC bragging they’ll use the $6 billion however they please. Our government is a joke.
The best part about that is that they gave him a lay-up through a leading question. They essentially asked, "you're going to use this for humanitarian aid right?" He was like: Dude didn't even find it necessary to lie.
I mean, at least have a gentleman's agreement that you WON'T GO ON AMERICAN TV WITHIN 24 HOURS and brag about how feckless the agreement is. If you suck at optics that badly, you probably shouldn't be running the United States.
Even if that's the case, if you're Biden, you at least make sure the mf'er doesn't go on American TV and brag about how he totally played us. At least give me the illusion that we have a small amount of competence in the matter.
Well, now that we're paying nations billions to release prisoners, whilst Maui residents have seen their homes destroyed and get a whopping $700 from FEMA, anything is possible at the right price. I'm sure $20~ billion brings Paul Whelan home. Ok, $25 billion if Putin has to agree not to brag about the rape on live American TV. Get 'er done, Joe!!!
US froze the funds and used as leverage. We released the funds to Qatar when Iran got the prisoners swap in place. I’m sorry for you we got prisoners home.
The crowd crowing on this thread prefers when agents of our government get $2 billion dollars to allow MBS to hack a journalist to death.
Under the tentative agreement, the U.S. has given its blessing to South Korea to convert frozen Iranian assets held there from the South Korean currency, the won, to euros. That money then would be sent to Qatar, a small, energy-rich nation on the Arabian Peninsula that has been a mediator in the talks. The amount from Seoul could be anywhere from $6 billion to $7 billion, depending on exchange rates. The cash represents money South Korea owed Iran — but had not yet paid — for oil purchased before the Trump administration imposed sanctions on such transactions in 2019. The U.S. maintains that, once in Qatar, the money will be held in restricted accounts and will only be able to be used for humanitarian goods, such as medicine and food. Those transactions are currently allowed under American sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic over its advancing nuclear program. The tentative U.S.-Iran deal involving prisoners and frozen funds, explained
