Iran’s ex-president writes Obama urging return of assets

On June 9, 2014, a court in America, based on unfounded claims without presenting any reliable documents, issued a sentence based on which about two billion Dollars of the Iranian nation’s assets would be seized unlawfully which is an obvious instance of transgression.

Remember, Iran was not getting anything extra from this deal, and was just recovering funds that all along belonged to Iran.

Other observers say the administration should have informed Congress about the details of the $400 million cash payment before it happened.

A USA official merely added to the controversy by saying it was “unknowable” whether Iran would have freed the prisoners without the settlement payment.

Tom Cotton likens the Obama administration’s airlifting to Iran a $400 million cash payment to the subversive actions of a “drug cartel”.

President Barack Obama insisted during a press conference on Thursday that the payment did not constitute a ransom.

One of the hostages has reported that he and the three other captives were detained for several hours at the airport in Iran and told they would not be allowed to leave until the arrival of another plane – inferentially, the unmarked cargo plane with the $400 million. “The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said”.

This circling of the wagons has included attacking Donald Trump for saying Clinton was responsible for the nuclear talks that resulted in the ransom payment.

In January, our country welcomed home four Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran. But a couple of years ago, it looked as if the USA would come out on the losing end of the tribunal’s judgment and have to pay as much as the $10 billion the Iranians were demanding-$400 million plus interest, inflation and penalties.

“The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian claim against the United States government”. Second, cash is required when two countries lack a banking relationship, as is the case with the United States and Iran. But, Jonathan Tobin writes in Commentary magazine, reality may be different: “Paying ransoms to terrorists or terrorist regimes is a practice that, at least in theory, the US opposes”.

Mostafa Azizi, a Canadian documentary filmmaker, was arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison for “acting against national security”, “insulting the Supreme Leader”, and “propaganda against the state”. On July 11, he was arrested on suspicion of crimes against Iran, The Washington Post reports.

Well, okay. Given recent events, we might forgive him for thinking that I suppose, but that’s still not supposed to be how any of this works. Iran also received over $150 billion in sanctions relief as part of the deal that it likely is using to fund terrorism and its WMD programs. “And if we can do something for them and we don’t do that, it’s sin”, he said, alluding to James 4:17. I don’t think so. We need to push our politicians, like people did for me.

With God’s help, Christians have power to improve the lives of the persecuted, Abedini said.