Fact Checker: No, Biden’s new deal with Iran won’t involve “U.S. taxpayer dollars”
are in prison in Iran or barred from leaving the country: businessman Siamak Namazi, who was arrested in October 2015; his father and former U.N. official Baquer Namazi, who was arrested in early 2016 when he went to visit his son, then given a medical furlough from prison but is barred from leaving Iran; Morad Tahbaz, a conservationist and entrepreneur who was arrested in January 2018; and businessman Emad Shargi, who was first detained in early 2018.
But officials also have insisted that the fate of the detainees is not connected to the nuclear talks. “We have never tied the fate of these American detainees to the JCPOA or any other diplomatic effort, because any diplomatic effort is at best an uncertain proposition,” State Department spokesman Ned Price
on March 14. “We want to see their safe release, their return to their families, a certain proposition. So, we have been discussing this on a separate track.”Nevertheless, Iran has indicated that it was not interested in any sort of prisoner exchange to resolve the fate of the detainees, but instead wants its money back. “I do insist that this would be a form of ransom payment regardless of U.S.
Lawmakers are certainly free to criticize U.S. officials for the diplomatic choices that are made, such as unfreezing billions of dollars blocked by sanctions. But they shouldn’t mislead Americans into thinking U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill.
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