The United States will never negotiate with terrorists and never pay ransom for hostages.
Well, not really. Even though Iran has been designated a terrorist regime by the State Department and Biden allowed Iran access to $6 billion in frozen oil funds, we still don’t do deals with terrorists.
Unless Joe Biden is president.
On September 22, Iran released five American hostages held on trumped-up espionage charges in exchange for the U.S. unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian assets. We didn’t know it at the time, but in late September, Hamas was putting the finishing touches on their plan to attack Israel on October 7.
We know that Iran supports Hamas to the tune of $70-100 million a year. While none of the unfrozen funds assisted Hamas in its attack, the thought of rewarding the terrorists with $6 billion that they would be able to spread around the Middle East to their proxy militias is tough to swallow.
The U.S. House agrees. It passed a bi-partisan measure to deny Iran (and Hamas) the $6 billion they were due for the hostage release.
“With such instability in the region, the last thing we need to do is to give access to $6 billion to be diverted to more…
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