Bam’s Pricey Iran Payout: Ransom or Settling a Debt?
THE ISSUE: President Obama’s $400 million cash payment to Iran the day American hostages were released.
It’s pure poppycock for Press Secretary Josh Earnest to try to pass off this plane-load payoff as pure coincidence (“Ransom? What Ransom?” Editorial, Aug. 4).
This Iranian nuclear deal should be in the Guinness Book of Records as the most disastrous diplomatic deal ever made by a United States president.
But let’s not forget that our former master of disaster, Hillary Clinton, was one of the chief chefs who helped bake this calamitous capitulation cake.
For our sake and Israel’s and for the sake of world peace, she should have stuck to baking cookies. James Hyland Beechhurst
Settling a longstanding liability isn’t a ransom payment.
Moreover, The Post’s narrative that Iran is hellbent on stocking up on American hostages is contradicted by the almost immediate release of 10 American sailors who drifted into Iran’s territorial waters in January.
On the larger question of the Iran deal, the agreement has plainly succeeded in its sole objective of curbing Iran’s nuclear program, which was supposedly just months away from producing a bomb before the deal was reached. Eric Hagemann Brooklyn
Franklin Roosevelt once famously said, “In politics, nothing happens by accident.”
That’s explanation enough to understand yet another corrupt action on the part of this administration.
What’s even more outra- geous is the fact that this ransom payment was part and parcel of President Obama’s attempt to cement his “legacy” regarding the Iran nuclear deal.
Why would anyone in their right mind want to be as closely associated with foisting probably the very worst and most dangerous foreign-policy deal in our nation’s history as is Obama?
This is something to be proud of ? President Obama’s library will probably be constructed in an underground bunker. Louie Rey East Meadow