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Biden Regime’s $6,000,000,000 Ransom for Hostages Payment
to Iran Will Lead to More Hostages
AUG 13, 2023 12:00 PM BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
“Our naval forces should take 10 or 20 Americans as hostage every month. For each one of them, we should get $1 billion.”
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.
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.
Sounds like a paid lobbyist!
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.
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France's ex-president Sarkozy slammed for call
to ‘compromise’ with Russia
France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has stirred outrage in Kyiv and Paris by suggesting
Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be ended with new referendums in occupied territories.
Issued on: 17/08/2023 - 13:14, 2 min
Text by: NEWS WIRES
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (L) claimed he 'convinced Putin to withdraw his tanks' from Georgia in 2008.
© Sergei Chirikov, pool/AFP/file photo
"The Ukrainians... will want to reconquer what has been unjustly taken from them. But if they can't manage it completely, the choice will be between a frozen conflict... or taking the high road out with referendums strictly overseen by the international community," Sarkozy told conservative newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday.
Speaking particularly about the Crimean peninsula, which Russia claimed to have annexed in 2014, the former French leader said that "any return to the way things were before is an illusion".
"An incontestable referendum... will be needed to solidify the current state of affairs," he added.
The ex-president insisted that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was "not irrational" and could be reached with the right kind of diplomacy from Europe, harking back to Moscow's 2008 invasion of Georgia when Sarkozy said he "convinced (Putin) to withdraw his tanks".
"Russia is Europe's neighbour and will remain so," he said. "Diplomacy, discussion and talks remain the only way to find an acceptable solution. Nothing is possible without compromise."
Sarkozy added that Ukraine should remain "neutral" and had no place in the EU or NATO.
The remarks drew an immediate response from Kyiv, with Mykhailo Podolyak -- a senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky -- saying they were based on "criminal logic".
"You cannot trade other people's territories because you are afraid of someone or because you are friends with criminals," Podolyak added.
While in office, Sarkozy had "deliberately participated in a criminal conspiracy for Russia's seizure of Ukrainian territories," he charged.
I don't know what he is referring to here because Sarkozy left office 2 years before Russia took the Crimea from Ukraine, and Putin did that, without firing a shot, because of the American-sponsored coup in Ukraine - the Maidan revolution, which would have left Russia's Black Sea Naval Base at Sevastopol at the mercy of NATO.
The ex-president -- who has spent much of his time since leaving office battling a slew of legal cases -- was also attacked at home in France.
Sarkozy "should be considered a Russian influencer," said Julien Bayou, a senior Green Party MP, telling broadcaster LCI the interview was "lunatic" and "shocking".
Bayou recalled an ongoing investigation into Sarkozy's lucrative ties to a Russian insurance company on suspicion of influence peddling and concealing crimes.
Sarkozy's former intelligence advisor Jerome Poirot told LCI that the ex-president's words were "shameful".
"He has no perspective on what's happened or on what he did" during his 2007-2012 term, Poirot said, recalling that Sarkozy was one of the key voices against Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO in 2008 -- which did not prevent Russia's later invasions of both countries.
"What were President Sarkozy's red lines? What was his vision for France's security? Just giving in to whatever Vladimir Putin wanted?" he asked.
(AFP)
What is Poirot's vision of Europe's security? Does he think a forever war in Ukraine is a good thing? Does he think pushing Putin into a corner where he could possibly do something unimaginable is better than talking to him or settling for peace? That's criminal thinking.
Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. the Maidan Coup did nothing to change that. The Russian invasion was provoked by NATO and the USA because Ukraine is a good place to move weapons inventories and is dispensable to both Europe and America. It is also a good excuse for weapons manufacturers to sell weapons systems and other war inventories to European countries that were never in any danger to begin with.
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