Rep. Zeldin Statement on New Information re: U.S. Paying $400 Million Cash Ransom to Iran

Statement

Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released a statement today following the latest news regarding the Obama Administration releasing $400 million to Iran at the exact same moment as four detained Americans were released by Iran:

"This was no coincidence. Far from it. $400 million in airlifted cash delivered to the Iranians at the same exact moment as four Americans were released by Iran. Despite the best efforts of Ben Rhodes, the White House's taxpayer funded fiction writer, much of the American public knows the script being pushed by the Obama administration is fiction and hardly based on a true story. No matter how ridiculously the administration wants to spin this, it was a cash ransom and a very dangerous precedent with grave consequences. Iran has already started unjustly imprisoning multiple Iranian-Americans again as well as foreigners from other nations, which are America's allies. The United States should have never agreed to this disastrous arrangement in the first place."

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