Republicans have blasted the prisoner exchange, which includes the release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil revenues, as rewarding Tehran for imprisoning foreign nationals.
I thought the US government had a policy against paying ransoms. But we did it with the basketball player in Russia, too
This will come back to haunt us because it clearly communicated to terrorist organizations (even if they are governments of foreign nations) that the US will pay you if you threaten enough citizens.
Iran is a sovereign state. If we fear their actions, we use diplomacy, not indefinite detention of their people. This isn’t Al Qaeda or ISIS or something.
I thought the US government had a policy against paying ransoms. But we did it with the basketball player in Russia, too This will come back to haunt us because it clearly communicated to terrorist organizations (even if they are governments of foreign nations) that the US will pay you if you threaten enough citizens.
Iran is a sovereign state. If we fear their actions, we use diplomacy, not indefinite detention of their people. This isn’t Al Qaeda or ISIS or something.