WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration acknowledged that the release of $400 million in cash to Iran in January was linked to Iran’s release of American prisoners, but rejected notions it was a ransom payment.
“With concerns that Iran may renege on the prisoner release given unnecessary delays regarding persons in Iran who could not be located as well as, to be quite honest, mutual mistrust between Iran and the United States, we, of course, sought to retain maximum leverage until after American citizens were released,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday at the daily press briefing.
It was the first time that the administration acknowledged linkage between the payment and the prisoner release. On Aug. 4, Mark Toner, another State Department spokesman, said there was no linkage between the prisoner exchange and the payment. “It’s just not true that there’s any linkage,” Toner said at the time.
We now know from the State Department announcement that President Obama lied about the $400 million dollars in cash that was flown to Iran,” Trump said in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday night, at a campaign event. “He denied it was for the hostages, but it was. He said we don’t pay ransom, but he did.”
Obama said he never pays ransoms. Trump is right once again. The democrat party is weak as hell.
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