{"id":68631,"date":"2016-10-27T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68631"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:12:35","slug":"diplomacy-with-pallets-of-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68631","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy with pallets of cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/10\/26\/ransom-effect-iran-handing-down-harsh-sentences-for-iranian-americans-after-swap.html\">Fox News<\/a>, US citizen Robin Shahini was sentenced Monday to 18 years for &#8220;collaboration with a hostile [US] government&#8221; by Iran. Last week, Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi and his 80-year-old father, Baquer Namazi were sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iran. Congressional Republicans claim it&#8217;s because the Obama Administration has given the Iranians the impression that we&#8217;ll pay ransoms for the release of US prisoners held by the Persians;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican lawmakers say the Obama administration&#8217;s controversial \u201cransom\u201d paid to Iran earlier this year is fueling a new wave of harsh sentences being handed down in the country to Iranian-Americans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s cash ransom payment to Iran makes Americans more vulnerable and encourages unjustified prison sentences and blatant kidnapping like this,\u201d Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio told FoxNews.com on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenior Justice Department officials warned the White House that Iran would view the pallets of cash as ransom, but the president didn\u2019t listen, and now Iran is taking more hostages and demanding more money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The sentencings follow a deal in January that freed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian and three others &#8212; an agreement completed the same day the U.S. made a $400 million cash delivery to Iran. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smart diplomacy. Every President since Thomas Jefferson has resisted paying ransoms for US citizens held by Muslim pirates. Well, until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, US citizen Robin Shahini was sentenced Monday to 18 years for &#8220;collaboration &hellip; <a title=\"Diplomacy with pallets of cash\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68631\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diplomacy with pallets of cash<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}