The Ransom Payment to Iran Is the Tip of the Biden Administration’s Appeasement Iceberg
Giving Tehran what it wants while skirting congressional oversight.
August 17, 2023
The Ransom Payment to Iran Is the Tip of the Biden Administration’s Appeasement Iceberg
Giving Tehran what it wants while skirting congressional oversight.
To Richard Goldberg, Washington’s decision to release $6 billion in frozen funds to Tehran in exchange for the freeing of five Americans being held illegally will give the ayatollahs more money to spend on weapons and terrorism while encouraging hostage-taking by Russia, China, and other bad actors. Worse still, Goldberg writes, it is only part of a larger strategic mistake:
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