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rafta_rafta
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« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2016, 09:17:02 PM » |
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Excellent. John Bolton is exactly what is needed at State right now.
The fact that the "let's give Iran $1.7 billion dollars and let's spurn Israel" crowd will go bonkers over this news confirms the wisdom of it.
Posts like these illustrate how low information Trump voters are US didnt "give" Iran 1.7 billion. It was a money that Iran had paid for exports in the 70s and the US never paid it back because the Shah regime fell. It was 400 million and the interest accrued led to total amount being 1.7 billion. And I wish someone would "spurn" me by the handing over the largest military aid package in history - 38 billion over 10 years |
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SirMuxALot
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« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2016, 01:50:00 AM » |
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Posts like these illustrate how low information Trump voters are
US didnt "give" Iran 1.7 billion. It was a money that Iran had paid for exports in the 70s and the US never paid it back because the Shah regime fell. It was 400 million and the interest accrued led to total amount being 1.7 billion.
You can dispense with the condescending "low information" insult. I was well aware of your half-truth "facts". Here are some more facts that provide a more complete picture. The $400 million was from illiquid assets that we already had possession of. There were other liquid assets (bank accounts and the like) we seized were already returned to Iran in the Algiers Accords on President Carter's last full day in office in 1981. The 400 million was illiquid assets in the form of military equipment, already paid for but not yet delivered by the US to Iran. I would hope we can agree that handing over that military equipment to Khomenei would have been unwise. The US placed $400m into an escrow account, with the intent to transfer those assets back to their rightful owners, the people of Iran, as such time as the people of Iran gained a free and democratically elected government. So the reality is Obama took money that belonged to the people of Iran and handed it to a dictatorial regime in exchange for what amounts to a diplomatic equivalent of a pinky-swear from the biggest liar in the entire grade school. The $1.7B was not the current regime's money. It should have been held until such time as a democratic and free Iran emerges. Unless you think a violent non-democratic coup was a legitimate transfer of power. |
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