Apparently, under the Biden administration, 1.2 billion dollars a head is the going rate for hostages.

Early this summer, we heard whispers around Washington that the Biden administration might be working behind the scenes on a secret deal with the Iranians. But Biden’s lead Iran negotiator recently lost his classified clearance, and those around the White House went mum.

Now we know why.

As recently as July, the White House vigorously denied it was working on a secret back-door deal with Iran.

That was a LIE.

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The Biden administration agreed to give Iran 6 billion dollars, reversing sanctions that had been frozen in response to Iran’s many previous violations of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or “Iran Nuclear Deal”). The funds were transferred to an account at the central bank of Qatar.

Meanwhile, Congress was left in the dark.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jim Risch (R-ID) took to social media to condemn the administration’s actions:

"While I welcome home wrongfully detained Americans, unfreezing $6B in [Iranian] assets dangerously further incentivizes hostage taking [and] provides a windfall for regime aggression," Rep. Risch said.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) concurred:

"The U.S. government should NEVER negotiate with terrorists, let alone fund them,” Rep. Tenney said. “Now, the Biden administration is giving the Iranian mullahs $6 billion to finance terrorism and oppression of the Iranian people."

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Joe Biden can’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag. Now he’s paid ransoms of over a billion dollars per head to a terror regime … and Iran has 6 billion more dollars with which to complete its nuclear warheads and point them at the world’s only Jewish state.

And it now appears likely that the Biden administration is going to give the tyrants of Tehran access to yet another 10 billion dollars in frozen assets plus the release of five top terrorists!

In a statement released on the matter, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote:

“These are only the barest outlines of the staggering concessions that Biden has already made and intends to make to the Ayatollah, including an additional $10 billion transfer and indeed hundreds of billions of dollars by not enforcing oil sanctions. Meanwhile, he has allowed the Iranian regime to all but acquire a virtual nuclear arsenal over the last two and a half years."

What makes all this worse is the recent revelation that Biden’s lead Iran negotiator, Robert Malley, was reportedly running an Iranian spy ring right out of the West Wing of the White House, even helping to place Iranian operatives in the Pentagon, too!

The London-based Persian language newspaper for Iranian expatriates who have escaped the Ayatollah’s regime released a trove of emails last week showing that Robert Malley “helped to fund, support, and direct” an Iranian SPY RING “designed to influence the United States.”

The U.S. State Department suspended Malley, revoking his security clearance. Malley is also now under investigation by the FBI. This story is still developing, and I will have more details for you soon.

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Sources:

Aitken, Peter. “Biden Admin Denies ‘Interim’ Iran Deal, but New Report Suggests Continued Diplomatic Backdoor Dealings.” Fox News, June 30, 2023. Foxnews.com/world/biden-admin-denies-interim-iran-deal-report-suggests-continued-diplomatic-backdoor-dealings.

Keene, Houston. “Republicans Torch Biden Paying Iran $6 Billion for American Hostages: ‘a terrible deal.’” Fox News, August 10, 2023. Foxnews.com/politics/republicans-torch-biden-paying-iran-6-billion-for-american-hostages-a-terrible-deal.

Smith, Lee. High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington. Tablet, October 1, 2023. Tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-spy-ring-robert-malley-lee-smith.

Sullivan, Jay. “Inside Iran’s Influence Operation.” Semafor, September 29, 2023. Semafor.com/article/09/25/2023/inside-irans-influence-operation.