Saudi’s don’t respect TRump
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You'll confuse him with the word 'succinct'.
It was a negotiated settlement with Iran and the Claims Tribunal.
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I think for Trump, the economics matter more than the "rag heads"
Teflon Don
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As I do recall, he did boast about blogging Comrade Legionovsky.
Of course, I guess I should stop calling you comrade. The russians seem so yesterday. It would appear that the Saudis are the bogey man du jour. So maybe I should say Asamqalekeum
Surely you understand that he was returning their own money. I'm glad Obama realized how dishonest it was to hang onto that money any longer, when we never delivered the goods.
"The initial $400 million has been owed to Iran since 1979 when Iran purchased American fighter jets which the U.S. didn’t deliver following the Islamic Revolution. The payment is actually part of a $1.7 billion payment, in which an additional $1.3 billion serves as interest."
Thirty-seven years' worth of interest.
Correlation doesn't imply causation.
Ransom.
The payees say it was ransom.
Let's see your source.
They are legion (tee hee).
Here's Catholic Online's report:
One of the hostages freed by Obama's timely payment told "The Intelligence Report" that their captors said they were waiting on another plane, referring to the money.
https://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=70241
Way to go Bama.Darth Omar
Russian asset
This has next to nothing to do with Trump.
The current Saudi leader may be brutal but he is at odds with both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wahhabis. K was Brotherhood.
Their culture sucks.
Ransom money plus "interest". Bama was so creative.
His own Justice Department objected, but State approved the ransom.
Senior Justice Department officials objected to sending a plane loaded with cash to Tehran at the same time that Iran released four imprisoned Americans, but their objections were overruled by the State Department...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-officials-raised-objections-on-u-s-cash-payment-to-iran-1470262789
Treasury’s published guidance regarding Iran states that, in general, “the clearing of U.S. dollar- or other currency-denominated transactions through the U.S. financial system or involving a U.S. person remain prohibited".
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/jcpoa_faqs.pdf (p.17, sec. C.14)
what i do not want is an over -reaction of sanctions upon sanction like we did with "Russian meddling".
US-KSA relations are a stabilizing force in the middle east, and while MbS is a reformer
he is also actively going after AQAP..
I'd almost prefer the whole thing gets whitewashed -no good can come from any of this
Y O U are quoting from a fake Catholic's biased site? Did you know the owner was just sentenced to 21 months in jail for tax evasion?No true Scots-, er, Catholic would make up a headline like Hostage Proves Obama is a LIAR about Iran Ransom Money.