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The Islamic takeover of Iran was built on taking hostages. But until the Obama and Biden administrations began paying huge ransoms for hostages, Americans weren’t constantly being taken hostage.
Iran takes Americans hostage to make money. If you doubt that, here’s a top terror leader saying it.
A top political strategist and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps officer told supporters that Iran should kidnap hostages and ransom them back to the United States for “blood money.”
“Here’s how the IRGC generates funds. The IRGC detains a spy like Jason Rezaian,” Hassan Abbasi can be heard saying in a video that surfaced on Wednesday. “The U.S. pleads for him to be released, and we ask them to pay for him. Our government gets paid $1.7 billion to hand over this spy. By detaining one spy, the IRGC earns the $1-2 billion, which it was supposed to receive from the government budget.”
“Do you want to solve the sanctions problem?” he continued. “Our naval forces should take 10 or 20 Americans as hostage every month. For each one of them, we should get $1 billion. If we get $1 billion per week, and the year has around 50 weeks. That’s at least $50 billion.”
They’re up to $6 billion for this round of hostages. That’s 5 hostages for $6 billion (plus the release of some Iranians from U.S. custody) which comes out to $1.2 billion per hostage.
So Iran is overperforming.
Some US hostage advocates have criticized me for arguing against Rob Malley & Brett McGurk's plan to pay the Iranian regime $7 billion to free 3 Americans.
My response: please watch former IRGC commander Hassan Abbasi suggest balancing Iran's budget by taking 10-20 US hostages. pic.twitter.com/xpcE7fn1Bh
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) June 21, 2023
The Biden administration and its media apologists are spinning this as “humanitarian aid”. We already know that’s nonsense. Iran will get access to money through its Qatari allies. And that money will be used to finance terrorism and its nuclear program.
We now know why the Biden administration’s political and media allies were hyping an imaginary Israel-Saudi deal ahead of this shameful ransom payment. A payment that, like Obama’s ransom payments, is illegal.
Americans are barred from financing terrorists. Yet Obama and Biden have been able to bend the law and get away with it.
But that’s no surprise from an administration headed by a longtime ally of the Iran Lobby.
After September 11, Biden proposed, “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.” At a 2003 Senate hearing, he suggested that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons because it felt “isolated”.
In 2007, Biden became one of only 22 senators to vote against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and warned that if President Bush took action to stop Iran, he would impeach him. A year later, he told Israelis that they would have to accept Iran’s nuclear program and proposed reopening a US diplomatic presence in Tehran. He also suggested cutting off Radio Liberty broadcasts that provided a voice for Iranian dissidents.
Beyond the campaign cash, Iran became the second largest enemy state to intervene in the 2020 election when its hackers conducted a false flag operation in Florida pretending to be Republicans and tried to hack sites reporting election results. What was Iran getting in exchange for all of this? Biden offered billions in indirect sanctions relief and put the Iran Lobby in charge of restarting the Iran Deal that would let the terror state build up its nuclear program.
We could put an end to this by ending the ransom payments and criminalizing further travel to Iran. But the hostage-taking is a convenient way for certain special interests to send money to Iran in an endless chain of arms for hostages.
Yeah, who was it who wrote about the Danegeld, Kipling?
“if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.”
Giving into the demands of extortinists only encourages them to continue to do it giving Extortionsists a term of Life in Prison No Parole no Pardons No Clemency will have them think twice before they pull it again
And these are the people Biden wants be in the possession of nuclear weapons. Boy, he IS dumb as a sack of hair.
Biden’s suicide is all but corporeal. My advice is [ I. ] a shot through the mouth [ II. ] done outside.
I. facilitates striking the medulla oblongata.
II. spares messing the walls.
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute” used to be a thing.
The list of things this administration has done correctly would be significantly shorter than the list of things they’ve done wrong. The former would require no paper or pen at all.
I’m with Dan Bongino on this one: “If a person was literally trying to destroy America, would he do anything differently than the Biden administration has already done?”
Negative your last, over.
And that is why evil has much more explanatory power than stupid.
Well just on the face of it is that Nation’s money and to what end was it withheld all this time and what right was this based on ? One of the problems with the West is they have very short memories and Iran has very long memories about what was done to them. Guess what, America is not loved by some. SAVAK conducted most of the torture, under the friendly guidance of the CIA which set up SAVAK in 1957 and taught them how to “interrogate” suspects. Amnesty International reports methods of torture that included “whipping and beating, electric shocks, extraction of teeth and nails, boiling water pumped into the rectum, heavy weights hung on the testicles, tying the prisoner to a metal table heated to a white heat, inserting a broken bottle into the anus, and rape. All under the Shah we supported. And we wonder why there was a revolution there and they hate our guts ? Duh !
As Me Mum used to say;”Don’t Encourage BAD BEHAVIOR”!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the name of the Iranian corporation receiving the Six Billion dollars? I want to buy their stock. The dividend payout must be fantastic. Just think, the cost is low, no advertising expense, low overhead cost, low wages for a few guards. Most of all you have a guarantee repeat customer.
After the exchange, you wait a few weeks and then start arresting a few more Americans for the next ransom request. Who says the capitalist system is dying? There are always ways to make money.
President Biden, remember its only fiat money you are paying them.
Humor for the evening.