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    WSJ: Obama Paid $400M in Cash to Iran as It Released Americans


    https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.c...eed-1470181874

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    Middle of the night day prisoners were real eased
    Against the law takes after clinton

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    WSJ: Obama Paid $400M in Cash to Iran as It Released Americans


    https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.c...eed-1470181874
    Non issue. Trumps tweets are more important.

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    Yeah breaking laws are ok to break because trump tweets

    Just like Clinton emails hacked more important who then what they said

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    Yes let's feed enemys
    Ofcourse that goes without saying USA should do no vetting and no walls

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    The $1.7 billion financial settlement ended a 35-year legal saga that centered on a purchase of U.S. arms by Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, that were never delivered because of the Iranian revolution in 1979.

    you owed them ducks... it was time you paid...

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    oh good.

    i was about to ask what race these americans are.

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    The $1.7 billion financial settlement ended a 35-year legal saga that centered on a purchase of U.S. arms by Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, that were never delivered because of the Iranian revolution in 1979.

    you owed them ducks... it was time you paid...
    seems legit, tbh

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    seems legit, tbh
    stay on message

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    http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2016/08/0...es-initiative/

    President Reagan hoped to secure the release of U.S. hostages being held in Lebanon in exchange for U.S. weapons. The scandal stained the president’s reputation, after he first went before the American people and proclaimed “We did not—repeat—did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we,” but four months later admitted “what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages. This runs counter to my own beliefs.”

    The final outcome of the arms-for-hostages disaster was two U.S. citizens released (Reverend Benjamin Weir and Father Lawrence Jenco) and two new hostages taken (Frank Reed and Joseph Cicippio). In exchange for no net gain in released U.S. citizens, President Reagan authorized the delivery to Iran—from U.S.-supplied Israeli stockpiles—the following advanced weapons:

    Aug. 20, 1985: 96 TOW missiles

    Sep. 14, 1985: 408 TOW missiles

    Nov. 24, 1985: 18 HAWK missiles

    Feb. 18, 1986: 500 TOW missiles

    Feb. 27, 1986: 500 TOW missiles

    May 25, 1986: HAWK spare parts

    Aug. 3, 1986: HAWK spare parts

    Oct. 28, 1986: 500 TOW missiles

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    One president paid Iran a ransom to free hostages, but it wasn’t Barack Obama

    Unmentioned by Republicans thus far is the incredible similarities of these allegations to the Iran-Contra scandal, in which President Ronald Reagan was caught misleading the American people about a secret arms deal in which the US sold anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran in exchange for the release of American terrorists.

    Reagan’s own diaries
    , published in 2005, explains the details of the arrangement. The following entry is from December 7, 1985:


    “Day opened with “Rex” (our new dog) on our bed. I then had a meeting with Don R., Cap W. and Bud M., John P., Geo. Schultz and Mahan of C.I.A. This had to do with the complex plan which could return our 5 hostages & help some officials in Iran who want to turn that country from its present course & on to a better relationship with us. It calls for Israel selling some weapons to Iran. As they are delivered in installments by air our hostages will be released. The weapons will go to the moderate leaders in the army who are essential if there is to be a change to a more stable govt. We then sell Israel replacements for the delivered weapons. None of this is a gift–the Iranians pay cash for the weapons–so does Israel.

    “George S. Cap and Don are opposed–Cong. has imposed a law that we can’t sell Iran weapons or sell any other country weapons for resale to Iran. Geo. also thinks this violates our policy of not paying off terrorists. I claim the weapons are for those who want to change the govt of Iran & no ransom is being pd. for the hostages. No direct sale would be made by us to Iran but we would be replacing the weapons sold by Israel.”

    Reagan later more directly confirms the deal in a January 17, 1986, diary entry, where he writes “I agreed to sell TOWs to Iran.”


    Ten months later, Reagan made a public statement after Lebanese news magazine Ash Shiraa wrote a story exposing the deal:

    “The United States has not made concessions to those who hold our people captive in Lebanon. And we will not. The United States has not swapped boatloads or planeloads of American weapons for the return of American hostages.”

    Barely six months after this statement, mounting public pressure forced Reagan to confirm what most of the nation at this point already knew:

    A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

    As the Tower board reported, what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages.”

    Unlike the Iran-Contra scandal, the $400 million payment to Iran at the center of the controversy surrounding the Obama administration has always been a matter of public record.

    http://usuncut.com/politics/reagan-obama/

    St Ronnie the diseased, ing liar and ransom payer.




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    He did it first!

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    TB , who did it second?

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    Keep deflecting for HRC.... It's what you do now.

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    Obama explained it sufficiently. It was not a ransom.

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    Obama explained it sufficiently. It was not a ransom.
    What he explained means nothing compared to what Iran viewed it as. Did you miss the interview of the hostage explaining how their plane was not allowed to leave until our plane with the money arrived?

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    Good. Is Obama going to return the Panama Canal to its rightful owners???

    Thought so.

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    What he explained means nothing compared to what Iran viewed it as. Did you miss the interview of the hostage explaining how their plane was not allowed to leave until our plane with the money arrived?
    So, you believe the Iranian governments propaganda now?


    Is the Iranian government motivated to spin events in a way that makes them look good to their people?

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