WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama says Americans long held in Iran will soon be
reunited with their families and says “tireless” diplomacy made it
possible.
Obama spoke as the Americans were on their way to Switzerland, a day after their release as part of a prisoner swap.
Under
the deal, the U.S. was pardoning or dropping charges against seven
Iranians citizens accused or convicted of violating U.S. sanctions.
Obama says the released Iranians weren’t charged with terrorism. He says their release is “one-time gesture” to Iran.
Obama says the U.S. will continue to search for Robert Levinson, a U.S. citizen long missing in Iran.
U.S.
officials negotiated the prisoner exchange alongside the nuclear talks
that led to Saturday’s release of economic sanctions against Iran.
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Trump is claiming credit. He thinks his big mouth fixes everything. The would in a smoldering pile of ashes would be a much more likely result.
Yeah right. The thing that bothers me the most about Trump is that win or lose, we will never be rid of him as he will turn his win into something I don’t even want to imagine and his loss will be blamed on everyone else and he will continue to get lots of free media
Trump is like Icarus or, maybe, Humpty Dumpty. Either way, he’s due for a big fall…in due time. Let him “soar” for now. I’ll wait.
Obama played Iran like a fiddle. First the financial sanctions, and then, cutting Iran’s oil sales by a million barrels a day with further sanctions. Step two, work with Saudi Arabia to increase their oil production from 8.5 million barrels a day in September of 2014, to 12 million barrels a day for most of 2015. That’s record production for the Saudis. U.S. and E.U. sanctions have cost Iran more than $160 billion in oil revenues since 2012. Russia and Iran are both feeling the squeeze from low oil prices. Iran is going to net between 55-60 billion out of 100 billion frozen assets after obligations due to the nuclear deal. Iran’s GDP was $406.3 billion in 2014, 60 billion is not going to be a magic bullet. If oil stays below $40,00 per barrel, their oil revenue will shrink to around twenty billion. That’s down from 114 billion in 2011. Link to Iran info:
We have a very smart man in the White House.
Thank you President Obama for giving PEACE A CHANCE!
I LOVE AND HAVE APPRECIATED YOUR LEADERSHIP as OUR POTUS!
Keep up the GREAT WORK!