Time for a fresh chorus of “Death to America!” in Tehran. Look how much the last one got them.
“Iran to receive $1.7 billion from the US in a claim settlement,” by David Lawder, Reuters, January 17, 2016:
The United States and Iran on Sunday settled a longstanding claim at the Hague, releasing to Tehran $400 million in funds frozen since 1981 plus $1.3 billion in interest, the State Department said.
The funds were part of a trust fund once used by Iran to purchase military equipment from the United States but which was tied up for decades in litigation at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal.
The settlement announcement was made after Tehran released five American detainees in a prisoner swap as a nuclear deal was implemented.

mileaway says
We’re broke and Obama is giving away billions to our enemies!
David Scoltock says
Who’s fault is that?
Iran was a democratic nation that dared to nationalise it’s oil. Britain and America hatched a plot to overthrow the government and install a tyrant of a Shah who pushed people so far they had a revolution that got hijacked by extremists.
This led to 30 years of Iran and America drawing daggers on each other.
Thing is, Iran is probably the best bet we have for middle eastern stability. They follow the brand of islam opposed to both isis and saudi. They are a damn sight more acceptable to the west from a cultural perspective, they don’t have the bullshit extremes of shariah that the saudis try to export.
They are persian which is a distinctly different cultural and racial group fro arab which means they can be courted as a foil.
It drives me to distraction that america is in bed with the saudis, who share the same ideals and motivations as isis while going so hard against iran.
John says
Iran has exactly the same mentality as the rest of the Islamic shit holes on the planet. They all scream death to America and death to the jews almost continuously. They have plans for a pan Islamic caliphate and the genocide of the nonbelievers. Yeah great partners for peace.
David Scoltock says
The problem is the current regime, many Brits still remember the Iranians under the Shah when we trained and equipped their military.
It’s a damn shame things turned south but the Shah was a bastard and forced the people’s hand then the extremists took over.
Angemon says
David Scoltock posted:
“Iran was a democratic nation that dared to nationalise it’s oil. Britain and America hatched a plot to overthrow the government and install a tyrant of a Shah who pushed people so far they had a revolution that got hijacked by extremists.”
Huh, no. Jimmy Carter stopped supporting the Sha not because the Sha was opposed to American interests but because the Sha didn’t respect the human rights of his people. The Iranian revolution was not “hijacked” by “extremists” but orchestrated by them.
“Thing is, Iran is probably the best bet we have for middle eastern stability.”
No. The only possible stability in the ME is having two players equal in power, both trying to be the top dog without actually going into war.
“They follow the brand of islam opposed to both isis and saudi.”
That’s factually false. Shias and sunni have some political and theological differences but both read from the same book and consider the same pedophile rapist highway robber as the best example of conduct. ISIS kill gays by throwing them from buildings. Saudi Arabia beheads them. Iran hangs them from construction cranes. That’s the difference.
“They are a damn sight more acceptable to the west from a cultural perspective”
Since when?
“they don’t have the bullshit extremes of shariah that the saudis try to export.”
See above with the example of gays.
“They are persian which is a distinctly different cultural and racial group fro arab which means they can be courted as a foil.”
Racially, yes, but cultural? Nope. Arab conquerors imposed their religion and culture on the beaten Persians, and the Persians, like good whipped dogs, have accepted it completely and defend it with their lives, if needed. It’s like that Monty Python scene “what did the Romans ever did for us”, except that Arabs brought desolation and war rather than pprogress and peace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE
Again: Iranians are NOT a cultural foil to the Arabs. As far as the mullahs know and care, Arabs – you know, the people who invented islam – don0t know what islam is and are following a perverted version of it. And as far as gays are concerned, beheaded or hanged, they’re dead all the same.
gravenimage says
Yeah–hanging gay people, imprisoning and torturing Christians, and stoning women to death are all “acceptable to the west from a cultural perspective”.
Try again, creep.
CogitoErgoSum says
So Islam allows interest in this case? By my calculations the rate being paid is somewhere around 3% compounded annually (please correct me if I’m wrong). Is this in compliance with Shariah? I don’t think so ….. unless you want to classify the $1.3 billion as Jizya.
David Scoltock says
Iran don’t follow shariah to the same extreme isis do.
Think of isis and the saudis as hard core catholic while the iranians are more puritan protestant.
same basic faith, totaly different application and a deep resentment and hatred of each other.
Champ says
Oh now “David Scoltock” is grasping at straws with the impotent *moral equivalence* argument …
Hey David, what’s your address, so I can send you a Dhimmi Award. I keep them handy to mail to *dangerous* Bozo’s, like you.
Peter Charles says
And the Obama Admin. plays us for suckers…again!
General Pershing says
So interest is OK as long it is given to the islamist from infidels?
More Ham Ed says
Your tax dollars at work!
Oh, Bummer.
They should have been given 1.3 billion ham sandwiches.
Angry Aussie says
Yes. Islam allows the collection of interest but not the payment of interest in accordance with Arab/Shariah Banking. At least that’s most definitely how it works in Australia. They don’t partake in ‘games of chance’ either supposedly but do have lucky door prizes at fundraising events. It’s all relative really. If it advances Islam, it’s halal. If any non Muslim benefits, it’s as haram as hell.
zerodown32 says
Classic “progressive” liberal bizarro fascists failure to discriminate, this time between good and evil , friend or foe, life and death.
Islam is a death cult. Sharia law compels all Muslims to commit heinous acts under penalty of death is they do not. Sharia make Islam unconstitutional in the United States – IT’S THE LAW !
Attorney explains here:
Voytek Gagalka says
“US to release $400 million in frozen funds to Iran, plus $1.3 billion in interest.”
WHAT interest? Are we not living in era of “zero interest rates”? And is it allowed now under sharia to charge interest or be paid interest? Those mullahs are true hypocrites! How bad and very “un-islamic” of them!
robert says
i thought the funds were FROZEN so there should be no interest paid,
Mark Swan says
That photo needs a caption…Yes My Beard Is Much Bigger and No You Cannot Wear The Black Diaper.