You don't know diddly. Iran was given back its money, with interest, because to do otherwise would have caused even more interest to be charged. Damn, you are stupid.
You have not identified which court finally settled the issue of frozen Iranian assets that were tied up in court for decades. None of the former Iranian hostages were ever paid with Iranian money because leftists claimed the US could not touch that money, yet Obama funded upwards of many billions of dollars to Iran he admitted would likely be used to produce weapons of mass destruction because, he claimed, it was their money.
Here are undeniable facts:
Why it took 36 years to compensate Iran hostage victims | PBS News
Why It Took 36 Years to Compensate Iran Hostage Victims
Dec 24, 2015 8:30 PM EST
PBS News Hour
In 1979, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by militant Iranian students who took 53 people captive for 444 days. The ordeal left a long-lasting toll and no chance of Iranian compensation. Now Congress has changed that under the new massive spending legislation: Survivors or their families will get up to $4.4 million each. Gwen Ifill learns more from David Herszenhorn of The New York Times.
GWEN IFILL:
The Iran hostage crisis was one of the defining moments of the 1970s, and it fractured a relationship between two nations that has never healed.
Now, 36 years after it began, the former hostages are finally getting compensation. It was November 4, 1979. The U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by militant Iranian students. Eventually, 53 American hostages, many of them diplomats, were held. Some were paraded around, exposed to mock firing squads and beatings. Some were placed in solitary confinement. They were held 444 days, as the nation watched and waited. One major rescue attempt failed.
Fifty-two were released on January 20, 1981, just as Ronald Reagan was being sworn in. One other hostage was released earlier because of illness.
Their families celebrated. But the crisis helped end Jimmy Carter's presidency and led to a three-decade-plus rupture between Iran and the United States. And for many of the former captives, the ordeal left a lasting toll, including depression.
But, until now, they have received no compensation for the ordeal. The massive spending legislation passed by Congress last week changes that, awarding each hostage $10,000 for each day of captivity.
The settlement also provides the potential for compensation for victims of other incidents, including the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa and the 9/11 attacks.
DAVID HERSZENHORN, The New York Times:
Well, we actually don't know yet, because some of the money depends on court cases that are ongoing and judgments that have already handed down in the courts, where there may be awards.
They haven't been paid yet.
In fact, the Supreme Court will soon, next month, be hearing a case about this. But we're starting out with a pot of roughly $4 billion, a big chunk of which goes to 911 victims, $1 billion of which will go to the Iran hostages.
GWEN IFILL:
You mentioned the Supreme Court.
Hasn't this very thing been litigated before? Has it gone as far as the Supreme Court and said, no, there will be no compensation?
DAVID HERSZENHORN:
Well, that's right.
What we have now is basically a congressional judgment. The Iran hostages were denied at every turn, in large part because the agreement that secured their release known as the Algiers Accord barred them from seeking any compensation. So the courts repeatedly rejected any claims, citing this treaty effectively in 1981 that secured their release.
What Congress has done is step in with legislative relief and said, Congress is basically giving to them the equivalent of a court judgment.
GWEN IFILL:
Right.
DAVID HERSZENHORN:
And now, with this bigger group of victims, they each have their claim, what some victims may have been awarded in court, what the Iran hostages were awarded by the Congress, and a special master will dole out the money that exists.
It starts with a big chunk of a settlement, really a landmark fine, penalty paid by the bank BNP Paribas, which had violated sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and Cuba.
GWEN IFILL:
So the pot of money that this is coming from, even though it's in a budget bill, is not really coming from the budget?
DAVID HERSZENHORN:
That's right.
This was one of the political tools in crafting this settlement, in making this possible, that there was a ready and available pot of money that didn't have to come right out of taxpayers' pockets, so to speak.
GWEN IFILL:
And it also didn't come out of the Iranian government's pocket either.
DAVID HERSZENHORN:
And that's been some disappointment to some of the hostages, who really do feel that Iran ought to pay for what happened directly.
Iran has been accused of sponsoring terror in many different locations on many different occasions. Victims and family members of victims of the two bombings in Beirut, 1983-'84, trucking bombing killed Marines and others, are included here. And there has been difficulty, even for the victims who have been able to pursue their claims in court.
Winning a judgment has been possible for a number of victims, but getting paid has not been possible, because, of course, Iran is not coming up with money. There was one rare instance where Libya was looking to get back into the good graces of the rest of the world and was willing to pay compensation.
Did Congress finally provide the hundreds of millions of dollars compensation for the Iranian hostages after nearly 40 years because Iran and Obama refused to allow the hostages to access Iranian funds?
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