The Iranian sanctions are over. The United States has now officially returned 100 billion dollars in frozen assets to the Iranian government as required by last year’s nuclear deal between Tehran and Washington.
“These assets…have fully been released and we can use them,” said government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht.
If you’re negotiating a deal with a hostile party, it behooves you to ask who’s having who for breakfast.
The United States, as the world’s sole remaining superpower, should have had the Iranian rulers for breakfast. We should have eaten their lunch, too, while we were at it, but nope. Iran gets 100 billion dollars and we get…nothing.
Oh, sure, we get “promises” from the Iranian government that it won’t build nuclear weapons, and inspectors get limited access to old nuclear facilities, but even if Iran never cheats and never builds a bomb, the best we can say is that we paid Iran off so it wouldn’t do something horrible.
The word for that is blackmail. Blackmail is a crime for a reason—because the blackmailed person or party gets robbed.
A good deal with Iran would have required the government—at minimum—to cease and desist all funding of international terrorist organizations. Instead, this deal enables the regime to dramatically increase its support for international terrorist organizations.
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Iran Gets its Blackmail Money | World Affairs Journal
“These assets…have fully been released and we can use them,” said government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht.
If you’re negotiating a deal with a hostile party, it behooves you to ask who’s having who for breakfast.
The United States, as the world’s sole remaining superpower, should have had the Iranian rulers for breakfast. We should have eaten their lunch, too, while we were at it, but nope. Iran gets 100 billion dollars and we get…nothing.
Oh, sure, we get “promises” from the Iranian government that it won’t build nuclear weapons, and inspectors get limited access to old nuclear facilities, but even if Iran never cheats and never builds a bomb, the best we can say is that we paid Iran off so it wouldn’t do something horrible.
The word for that is blackmail. Blackmail is a crime for a reason—because the blackmailed person or party gets robbed.
A good deal with Iran would have required the government—at minimum—to cease and desist all funding of international terrorist organizations. Instead, this deal enables the regime to dramatically increase its support for international terrorist organizations.
mo
Iran Gets its Blackmail Money | World Affairs Journal
