The ransom payments and hostages need to end.
Iran’s Islamic terror regime has three exports: energy, drones, and meth. Like most traditional Islamic cultures, it also has a thriving trade in slavery, kidnappings, hostages, and such things.
Here’s how that works.
A top political strategist and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps officer told supporters that Iran should kidnap hostages and ransom them back to the United States for “blood money.”
“Here’s how the IRGC generates funds. The IRGC detains a spy like Jason Rezaian,” Hassan Abbasi can be heard saying in a video that surfaced on Wednesday. “The U.S. pleads for him to be released, and we ask them to pay for him. Our government gets paid $1.7 billion to hand over this spy. By detaining one spy, the IRGC earns the $1-2 billion, which it was supposed to receive from the government budget.”
“Do you want to solve the sanctions problem?” he continued. “Our naval forces should take 10 or 20 Americans as hostage every month. For each one of them, we should get $1 billion. If we get $1 billion per week, and the year has around 50 weeks. That’s at least $50 billion.”
The current Biden version of the deal gives Iran $1.2 billion for 5 hostages amounting to a total of $6 billion.
That beats the $1 billion target, but is lower than the proposed Iranian deals that would have traded 3 hostages for $7 billion. Paying a less outrageous ransom to kidnappers than the one originally proposed is only a deal if you’re an idiot. And you can bet that Biden’s people will make that argument.
When we pay ransom, we incentivize hostage-taking. And since Americans insist on going to Iran, a fresh supply of hostages is flying in every day.
There are things we could do about it, beginning with a ban on any Americans doing any kind of business with an Iranian entity, no matter what currency is used, and even if it means buying a soda at the airport.
Iran is a terror state. Any money input into it will directly or indirectly fund terrorism.
Put some serious fines behind it. Don’t exempt journalists or NGOs. When that trip to Iran isn’t just $10K, but suddenly comes with $150,000 worth of fines, the Iranians will end up with a lot less hostages.
Those are also the only kind of sanctions that may stop them from taking hostages.
mike says
we need to band travel FROM Iran as well
Peacelover says
my first thought also(!)
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yep!
Paulette Harvey says
No I am sorry there are people on the regimes to kill list that flee for their lives , what needs to be done is for border forces to be up to the job a sorting the wheat from the chaff, there are without doubt regime insurgents getting into all Western countries and these interlopers need to be sent packing but those who need sanctuary must not be denied
Walter Sieruk says
That dictator/president Rasis of that Islamic terror state of Iran deserves no respect at all.
Even before Rasis became the President/tyrant of Iran he had military power and is directly responsible for have many innocence ruthlessly murdered. At that time and later he, for giving so many deadly orders was known as the “hangman of Tehran.”
After Rasis had become the President/dictator of Iran he had over a hundred people executed in the short span of time,, from January to March, in the year 2022.
Considering all those murders occurred before this righteous protests and justified revolt against that brutal, cruel oppressive malicious Islamic regime started.
Since it had begun many more innocent people have been murdered by that horrendous Islamic tyranny of Iran.
Getting back to Even before Rasis and come to the position of supreme power on Iran, he taken a heinous and deadly part in the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Peacelover says
‘before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.”’….that is tough to even read. What maniacs.
Walter Sieruk says
The real reason that President/tyrant Rasis is using a strong police and military might to come down hard in a bloody crackdown of brutal cruel vicious force isn’t to keep order in the Islamic regime but to ruthlessly and maliciously murder and terrible harm the brave and courageous Iranian people who are protesting against that horrendous tyranny that they are forced to exist under ,for this tyrannical hostile regime denies them their basic and natural human rights.
Another that horrific and deadly might is used on the protesters is because to claim of “keeping order” is only and excuse in inflict misery bloodshed death and further oppression on the people is explained in the wise saying which is “Evil is always looking for an excuse” Evil is what Rasis and his oppressive regime really and truly are.
Walter Sieruk says
Iran has in its Islamic arrogance and gall even quadrupled is stockpile of uranium for the production of nuclear weapons
Moreover in should be remembered that most that money Iran has obtained, thanks to Obama and Kerry, will had gone into funding weapons and other supplies to Iran murderous terror proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas. Second point: not too long ago young Iranian woman who now lives in an American city that I now also live in. This city has a newspaper and she wrote an article how she and her mother had returned from visiting her sick and dying grandmother in the hospital in Tehran in Iran In that article this young women explained that the medical and health care in Iran’s hospitals is so terrible that the people of Iran view hospitals s place that people go to not get better but to die. The reason the this second point is brought up is that the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as others in power in this Islamic tyranny Iran will not invest those news funds from, Obama and Kerry, in better health care in hospitals but instead use that money to engage in more support for brutal and murderous militant jihad organizations . For those tyrants in power in Iran don’t care, at all, about the Iranian people. They are only interested in furthering their mad jihad Islamic quest.
Walter Sieruk says
Way before this current justified and righteous revolt started in the year 2022 by the Iranian people against that oppressive and brutally murderous tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran knowledge of just how horrendously cruel vicious and horrifically evil that “mullah tyranny” of Iran actually was and still is.
For example, back in time with President Trump and his administration on the date of 4/22/19 the US Secretary of State ,Michael Pompeo spoke of that brutal and oppressive tyranny which oppresses the people of Iran and said “We will not appease their oppressors as that last administration did .” Pompeo then stated “We will support the Iranian people.”
As far back as on Tuesday, 2/5/ 19 in his second State on the Union a speech President Trump ,wisely, spoke of that Islamic tyranny of Iran as well as those in total power and complete of that tyrannical rogue state. For the President declared “It is a radical regime, they do bad, bad things.”
Moreover, an author of an article on a Freedom Site, Dariush Afshar, had explained the reality of the situation well when he wrote that the “People of Iran who fight for freedom in Iran and abroad put a huge gap and draw a prominent line between Iran and the Islamic regime in Tehran.”
This is sadly and tragically the terrible reality of this Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran. This Islamic tyranny has been well nicknamed “the mullahs regime” in which them mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other fiendish and fanatical Muslims in power have a strong and awful control of the Islamic regime of Iran and through their band of Islamic state “police” , who are called the “Revolutionary Guards “come down hard human rights of the Iranian people .
Therefore, the Iranian people who are trapped and forced to exist in this Islamic tyranny live in terrible fear of the mullahs and others in power in Iran. This is a tragic and sad reminder of the wisdom that was printed in the periodical of Benjamin Franklin which is entitled POOR RICHARDS’ ALMANAC that reads “Those who are feared are also hated.”
It also should be added, to this that the actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs ayatollahs in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic .Furthermore the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example, the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand.
OLD GUY says
We need to ban all travel to all islamic/musli countries and remove all of them that are here illegally, or who have overstayed their visa.
Peacelover says
I agree although honestly,as far as your ‘illegally’,I’d go even further if could/possible. Just being honest. We know it’s not possible though. There are too many and too many lefties or just average citizens of whatever party who would stand up for them.