{"id":4579,"date":"2023-09-12T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2023-10-08T23:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T04:35:05","slug":"4579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/09\/12\/4579\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Republicans are both complaining about this move by President Biden.\u00a0 $6 Billion, basically a billion per hostage, is a world record of dubious sorts.\u00a0 The previous payment high was $400 million\/person during the Obama Administration.\u00a0 These payments, which will not be limited to humanitarian goods per the Regime\u2019s own announcements, are empowering terrorism and the lack of reform in Iran.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202309126163\">\u201cUS Lawmakers Slam Biden\u2019s Hostage Ransom Deal With Iran On 9\/11,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 9-12-23.<\/p>\n<p>These are criminals involved in nuclear proliferation, etc. who the U.S. has agreed to exchange for innocent persons.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2023\/09\/12\/iran-identifies-5-prisoners-it-wants-us-swap-iranian-americans-and-billions-assets.html\">\u201cIran Identifies 5 Prisoners It Wants from US in Swap for Iranian-Americans and Billions in Assets,\u201d<\/a> Military.com, 9-12-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/us-to-pay-6bn-ransom-to-iran-to-free-five-hostages-including-british-citizen-morad-tahbaz-12959470\">&#8220;US to pay $6bn to Iran to free five hostages including British citizen Morad Tahbaz,&#8221;<\/a> Sky News, 9-12-23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran confirms it arrested Swedish citizen,\u201d DW, 9-12-23.\u00a0 Why did the EU wait 500 days to publicize their employee\u2019s detention?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-iran-hezbollah-airport-attack-gallant-79f7921ba8c061b7a90678c9ea9e099b\">\u201cIsrael accuses Iran of building airport in southern Lebanon to launch attacks against Israelis,\u201d<\/a> AP, 9-12-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and Republicans are both complaining about this move by President Biden.\u00a0 $6 Billion, basically a billion per hostage, is a world record of dubious sorts.\u00a0 The previous payment high was $400 million\/person during the Obama Administration.\u00a0 These payments, which will not be limited to humanitarian goods per the Regime\u2019s own announcements, are empowering terrorism &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/09\/12\/4579\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}