Rep. Zeldin Statement on Obama Administration Reversing Story and Now Confirming the Obvious: $400 Million Cash Payment to Iran Was Connected to Simultaneous Release of American Hostages

Statement

Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released a statement today following the latest breaking news of Obama administration reversing its story and now confirming that the United States' $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on the release of four detained Americans:

"Today, the Obama administration reversed its story in order to now admit and confirm the obvious: $400 million in airlifted cash delivered to the Iranians was connected to the simultaneous release at the same exact moment of four American hostages. This was no coincidence even though the Obama administration insisted there was no connection. Now matter how the administration wants to spin the truth, this was a planned event providing a cash ransom to the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. As a result of this exchange, a very dangerous precedent with grave consequences has been set. 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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