Five American prisoners may soon be released from yearslong Iranian detention as part of a deal by the Biden administration. But somehow, Republicans are still coming up with reasons to be mad.
sent $400 million by plane to Iran as four American prisoners were released. Two years earlier, Republicans alsoan Army sergeant who walked off base in Afghanistan, from the Taliban.
The deal, which is expected to take weeks to be finalized, would see the frozen funds transferred to an account in the central bank of Qatar. “We are simply moving the account to a country which will have a system that Iran will be able to access…their funds,”CBS News. “The money is only earmarked for humanitarian purposes. The same oversight is going to be applied in this account as was applied in previous accounts.
However, in a Friday statement, Iran’s foreign ministry appeared to deny the terms laid out by Kirby. “The process of releasing billions of dollars from the assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which were illegally seized in South Korea by the United States for several years, has begun,” a regime spokesperson
. “The decision on how to utilize these unfrozen resources and financial assets lies with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
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