Iranian president talks prisoner swap, $6 billion deal with US
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran. In exchange, the U.S. will give Tehran access to $6 billion that had been blocked by U.S. sanctions and release five Iranian citizens held in the U.S. NBC’s Lester Holt sat down exclusively with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi.
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I just love that governments get away with this kind of corruption with other people’s money and no one bats an eye! If a civilian did something like this, we would be in prison for LIFE!
@peacenow42, aren’t we all in prison by the government? 🤔
@peacenow42 , just remember, the bigger government gets, the more restrictive they get.
Well the District of Communist is busy throwing tax paying flag waving Americans in prison. But so called Americans stupid enough to be in Iran get a most expensive free ticket home.
What's the corruption here???
@@curtisthomas2670the $6 billion deal, 10% goes to the big guy
I thought we don’t negotiate with terrorists?
So, now we do negotiate with terrorists.
Obama started it.
He’s a hero
biden would negotiate with a dead fish if there was money in it for him.
Yep, just wait, here in a few months multiple US citizens will be captured somewhere abroad. It's the same thing with criminals in inner cities when you defund the police. People see that and prey on it. I can't believe me, just an average youtube keyboard warrior understands that's a stupid concept yet these people making billions and millions don't. But I'm the dumb one.
America always has 😂😂
US government: “We don’t negotiate with terrorists”
Biden: “Hold my diaper”
How is Iran terrorists?
Iran is not a terrorist, USA is. Even the land you stand on right now was a stolen land.
@@MusehanaH did what happend today answered you question?
@@MusehanaHIran is the number one country that funds terrorists in the entire world. It’s facts google it, it’s been that way for along time.
@@sdworld3966NATO which includes America has been terrorist using your logic😂
We're living in the twilight zone
Biden is the best president iran ever had. 👏
Correct.
Delusional
Do you expect Iran to give the money it should receive from the sale of oil to America? What ridiculous people you are
Don't feed the trolls
Obama was a close runner up
So much for America not negotiating with terrorist . All these old people need to go!
Did trump free 2,000 taliban prisoners ?
A bunch of corrupt politicians just got a lot richer on this horrible deal.
They are not more corrupt than US which created 1953 Coup against democratically elected Mohammad Moss
adegh and also held for so many years and has given a lot of monies to the Iranian terrorists outside and inside Iran to sabotage Islamic Republic of Iran Gov., has given to the 9/11 fund to families who have asked for compensation. Iran has had nothing to do with the events of 9/11 and in fact many Iranian-Americans died on 9/11 events from different states.....
Simply untrue
And Biden's one of them.
Prove him wrong,@@chandelier6811
@@superoldgamesaturday3277 ok comrade
While this administration is handing out money like candy don't forget Maui residents and East Palestine Ohio.
People need to read more. It isn't OUR money, it's IRAN'S money held in a THIRD country that our bold faced government blocked being released to the rightful owner IRAN on threat of sanction.😢
@joshschmidt3841 I mean yeah Ohio but Maui nah not your people 😂 America needs to give them 6 billion and their island back and leave.
@joshschmidt3841yeah! US Americans don’t want to help anyone but ourselves. No one else should have our help with anything. We should be more selfish then we already are. Because that’s what God wants… wait
@@pwilson13imagine being so out of touch with the reality of how donations are distributed.
@peacenow42what is to resent? How is an earthquake in Morocco any concern of the UNITED STATES TAX PAYER? PLEASE EXPLAIN?
Apparently we do negotiate with terrorists
Since when have we not done that?
Always have. Remember Reagan and lran, PLO, FARC?
@@tvprich republican presidents
America is not a terror1st country? Who invaded more countries Iran or America?
Let's go Brandon.
Seriously, 6 billion for 5 US citizens who were from Iran? It would have been too much at 6 million. BAD DEAL
Those Iranians are more American than you can ever be lol
@@sinistera1634 I guess that's dependant upon what American is. I'm about 15% native American and the rest European. Personally I don't consider ANYONE native to the Middle East American for 2 generations at least on the same continent.
The US government doesn't care if you are native or have been here for 4 generations. They protect smart and useful people. I can guarantee you, Your life is not as important to US government than those Iranians who are working for them.
@@sinistera1634coming from a guy that says Iran doesn’t support terrorists and America does…. Your parents and teachers failed you big time.
@@karastover6218 At least i have parents and teachers seems like you didn't have any
They get 6 billion AND 6 Iranian prisoners for 6 Americans? Math ain’t adding up here
It’s Iranian money that was blocked.
@@omarrahman88if it was blocked then it isn't their money.
@omarrahman88 they get something that they didn't have in exchange. Sounds like being paid
@@omarrahman88 cite a source
@@Saltwater_Odysessy Try the internet some time, the money has been in limbo for about 40 years.
Surly you can do a simple search on such a simple thing, maybe?
10% to the big guy.
yeah just not true; this is irans own money lol
With the way Republicans cry over a President's son,(who never even worked in the White House), I don't think he would be making any side deals like that.
No, it's not,@@msdd7610
@@msdd7610still feel the same way now? Iran is the number one country out of all countries to fund terrorists.
I say we give $6
Everyone trying to get their trades in since the saw that Griner bs before ol Brandon’s out
Thanks our current president for all of the unrest. Oh btw, N Korean president meets with the Russian president today. Isn’t that just lovely…
And what are we supposed to do about it?
NK and Russia are sovereign nations and free to meet each other. No business of the US
Trump would probably take Kim Jong Un on Air Force One to Russia.
You want us to shoot down the Russian/NK plane or something? You're crazy
@@tihzhoTRUMP made PEACE with our enemies. But our enemies join forces against this WEAK administration 😢
Is this seriously happening??? Outrageous!!! God help us make it through this sick administration!
Which part is outrageous?
God cant help us bro because hes The installed president and they will install somebody else next
It’s their money. We’re just blocking it. What gives us that right? Imagine if a country was blocking $6 billion from the USA. Might have to spread some democracy there…
Clueless
@@user-ef7jg1ir5qhow did "America come last" in this please
How did 5 women basketball players get stuck in Iran?
Another brilliant geopolitical move by Uncle Joe.
Yes, we get our people back, they get theirs back. Win win.
@@curtisthomas2670Why put sanctions on in the first place? This just sends a signal that US prisoners have a high value, nothing terrible could ever come of that...
@@daledimassi416so they have no value???
@@curtisthomas2670 That's not at all what I said.
But what message do you think this deal or the Britney Griner trade sends to the rest of the world?
@@daledimassi416 that we value our citizens enough to do whatever to get them back. Reagan did it too, more than once.
Will they send pallets of cash again?
No one is saying why it was blocked in the first place?
Thank you. And I'm having a hard time finding it. But yes, let's start there.
Welp, now we know where the Hamas got their support and funds.
6b to iran and 700$ to Maui residents... i hope the big guy thinks about hunter railing his dead son's wife 24/7. What a family
Today Show is largely to blame for snowballing this $H!T show beginning with barry.
Three weeks later, this interview didn't age well.
Thats ransom not swap. $6,000 MILLION. It takes 14 days to count to one million. Thats a lot of taxes.
It’s not 6 million…It’s 6 billion. It’s far worse than 6 million.
It’s Billion, not million😂
It's not tax payer money. The tax dollars are going to be used to facilitate the deal but it's not our money
@@manhattanmike6959What country do you live in? All of the money the government has comes from tax payers. Either through direct taxes or when the the potato in the white house makes it appear out of thin air. That is called inflation and only the government can cause it. Boy socialist are bad with money.
It’s their money. We’re blocking it. We have no right to beyond saying “the taliban will take it, not the people who deserve it”
We could use that money instead for social security
Do you honestly think the money was taken from a vault or something in America? This was money that South Korea owed to Iran, but the U.S. had forbidden them to pay until now. This is what the Americans call secondary sanctions. Anyone who has any economic contact with Iran is also sanctioned by America.
@@amostofi1999 as trade deals go and are global, do you honestly think think that the 6B is not indirectly affecting The U.S.?
The U.S. is not giving up South Korea nor Israel. The U.S. ordered that sanction and negotiated with a worldwide known terrorists state to release that sanction to the tune of 6B from the same pot we all dip our hands into.
@@amostofi1999funding our enemies is treason idc who you are & Idc who's $ it was
@@PenelopeGTthen USA should be defunded first
It isn’t our money. It’s theirs. We’re blocking it.
What a great president. He's even got the iatollahs of Iran singing his praises. 🙄
this is irans own money lol
Thank you President Biden for caring about your people. I’m grateful to have a president who values the lives of the people in his charge.
The money was not taxpayer money; it was Iranian money we’d frozen: “This isn’t a payment of any kind. These aren’t U.S. dollars. They aren’t taxpayer dollars, they are Iranian dollars the previous Administration allowed them to make," National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
Thank you Brandon 🇺🇸
This aged well.
Came to say the same. Go Joe blow!
10% for the Big Guy!! 🎉🎉🎉
Let the good joe pay the bill
Let’s not forget Approximately 61,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate that went missing. That might be waiting for these guys to come back and use.
Pretty sure they used some for those Canadian wildfires that made our east coast a beautiful cancerous shade of orange...
That's only enough to fertilize one square mile of farmland, and a light application at that. I know it sounds like a lot when you think about it being used for a bomb, but if you put it in context of using ammonium nitrate as intended, for fertilizer, it's not that much. I put 100 pounds on my 1/3 acre lawn twice a year just to maintain a green yard. 61,000 pounds missing sounds more like a case of theft than anything else to me.
Just FYI, under Obama, when we had the last hostage exchange happened. A C-130 loaded with palates of cash landed in Iran at the exact same time as the exchange. Also, just remember America doesn't negotiate with terrorist and hostage takers.😂😂😅
And JUST like in that instance the money BELONGS TO IRAN. It wasn't US taxpayers money, it belongs to lran
@@curtisthomas2670false OBAMA gave money to a state funder of TERRORISM and OBIDEN just had it unfrozen.😢 this and now our enemies are joining forces AGAINST US as Russia meets with north Korea. While trump made PEACE during his presidency. Biden's administration brings us closer to war every day 😢
We’ve always negotiated with them.
Even Trump negotiated with hostage takers.
@@curtisthomas2670 it's irans money lol
Iran: We should hostage more americans 😂
How are you feeling about this bow??
The most popular president in history 😂
That's my tax money going to Iran and I DID NOT approve it!!!! Whatever happened to the "We Don't negotiate with Terrorist"?!?!?!?
U don’t give that much money to a country like Iran. Millions wasn’t enough. How about 1 billion but they gave then 5-6 billion. Yes I would want my loved one home too but this trade is embarrassing to the USA.
We know the US is super good at these exchanges….
dont forget to pay your taxes in 2024.
Was that Borat translating?
it's nice
I thought America “ doesn’t negotiate with terrorists” 😂😂🤡🤡😂😂🤡🤡😂😂🤡🤡
Joe Potato must be getting his 10% for this sham…
It was lran's money banked in a third country that the US bullied with threat of sanctions if they released it to its rightful owner IRAN.
It is NOT our money it's IRAN'S money ffs
We should be charging them $6B and 6 prisoners instead.
For what?
To get their 6 people back and to be put as servitude to USA instead of the other way around.
It’s their money.
@@nickthompson1812It’s theirs once we give it to them. How is it their’s before?
the days of american empire are coming to a close, you will sit down and do as you are told
NBC: “see, Biden is such a great President!”
We are on a winning streak . the biggest block buster trade by far is trading a a weaponry dealer for a basketball. USA
😎
I like how they gave Iran 6 billion so they can make more drones for Russia so we can continue to make a lot of money from Ukraine.
funded and backed by iran: The Beirut Barracks Memorial honors the 241 American service members who lost their lives in the October 23, 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War. Two truck bombs, detonated by suicide bombers, struck buildings that housed U.S. and French military members of a multinational peacekeeping force, killing a total of 299 service personnel (241 American, 58 French), along with six civilians and the two suicide bombers. It was the deadliest single-day attack against U.S. Marines since the battle over Iwo Jima in 1945.
Why did we give people that hate us, 6 billion dollars?
Hilarious
Americans LAST, again
We got our people back, so first
@@curtisthomas2670 so you think it’s a good idea to give Iran $6 billion dollars? Of course, Obama gave them $150 billion and they pinky promised to not build a nuke
WHAT IS 10% of 6 billion.
This administration has taught me you can do a lot with money. I knew this before but it’s broaden the scale of it for me.
How much is kicked back to the democrat party??
LETS GO BRANDON
What?! Why would we cooperate with this?! 6 US for 6 Billion?! Since when do we negotiate with Iran?? And a Billion each? Are they crazy ?!
Reagan negotiated with Iran, PLO, FARC to get Americans back
It’s going to be open season on Americans in other countries now🤦🏾♂️
he's like lets get some extra cash before biden gets out
Pay attention, people.
This is NOT US tax revenue.
This is Iranian money that was being held in US banks being released.
And what was the money Obama gave them?
In foreign banks
You act like it was a good deal and for everyone to relax. Dude your the problem people like you act like they are the smartest people when you know just as much as everyone else 😂 but you probably know less 😂
It's a good deal if everyone gets their people back
Yes, whoever temporary stolen those money were thieves. That's not South Korea or US money for sure! 😅😅🤣🤣🆒
Don’t forget Obama did the same thing
Obama gave Iran back their assets. Ok and?
I’m impressed by the total lack of comprehension shown by the people commenting on this story.
Seriously. The iranian people aren’t oppressed by their government, it was the American government oppressing the Iranian people. So glad they can prosper now and maybe help fight climate change with nuclear power.
Let me break it down for you. 5 people = $6,000,000,000. To a country that is our adversary. Maui goes up in flames and the government gives those people $700. Is that comprehensive enough?
It was lran's money banked in a third country that the US bullied with threat of sanctions if they released it to its rightful owner IRAN.
It is NOT our money it's IRAN'S money ffs
@@defmc1so we can take money that belongs to lran and give it to our citizens??????
@joshschmidt3841 Perfect proof of your total lack of comprehension.
This was NOT our money. This was Iranian money frozen in Iranian accounts in South Korea. The money never even entered the US or American banks.
This is like me deciding to build a wall and funding it by raiding your bank account.
Not so different from cartel kidnappings for ransom
Such an embarrassment. We need RFK 2024
Trump 2024
We need Donald Trump.
I'm just here for the people complaining about the US giving Iran their money back
another finger in the face of combat vets and their families, and the rest of americans who actually care.
They were paid where is our prisoners?
If you go to iran, you are on your own. It will cost you your life. You have had your warning.
It doesn't matter who's money it is (that's just the curve ball) at the end of the day the US negotiated a deal to pay for Hostages.
Send more billions. I'll give Big Guy 10%.
the only reason i said "at least they can act like countries that are willing to make deals" is because they held them previously indefinitely with hate and an irrational truth, a brutal and forceful truth. it isn't all about it being a prisoner swap but at most they are acting like a nation that isnt personal or sitting on a last messianic truth.
like the 12th imam concept right?
This aged well, didn't it?
We’re fked
That means every US citizens now a target.. Easy money
Now do we buy back the new ones?
I thought we don’t negotiate with territories but okay
Then you will complain he's leaving Americans to die in iran
So we pay tribute to the ayatollahs and the Persians now? What a joke of a government. This is the same way Rome fell. 😂
Are you a Polish Iranian? Lol, I just kidding you. Why just 6? ..I mean that's alot, but still. Oh, what a friend you have in Jesus....
Barbary pirates still alive n well
Whattt ???
Once that money hit the atm bombs away
who voted for this Biden guy?
I did and I will vote for him again
Trump would've negotiated better. We always get the shaft with Biden
I assume this is in response to deteriorating Saudi relationship. 🤔
Where’s Rambo when we need him?
in hollywood
Here take this 6 billion$ for 5 prisoners and "humanitarian aid".
No one is saying anything about how boldface it is for the US to tell South Korea that they can't give lran back Iran's money held in a South Korean bank or they'll be sanctioned. That's upper tier level bullying and villainy
So we get 6 people, they get 5 people and 6 billion dollars? That doesnt seem like a fair trade. You cant put a number on how much a human is worth, but 6 billion seems like a lot.
You do realize the money belongs to lran, was in a foreign bank and was "frozen" by the US?
@@curtisthomas2670 of course. And we could have kept it from them forever
@@diceman3616 and they could've kept our citizens forever too. Reagan did the same thing to get our people back, remember
@@curtisthomas2670 Who cares what that criminal did 40+ years ago.
@@diceman3616 sure, hymc
6 billion. why were they there. some vanity fair.
Reading comments, people have a hard time understanding this money has been in limbo longer then commenters have been alive.
Try the internet people, and save face over simple logic like this.
They're so clueless they actually believe it's our money we sent to them, just like they believe Obamna sent them a plane with pallets of our money
I thought we don't bargain with terrorists?
Always did
@@curtisthomas2670 uh no. Not until Obama.
@@ronjacobsen3264 ever heard of Ronald Reagan and the Iranian deal that became the Iranian Scandal or the deals he made with FARC and PFLP-GC etc to get our people back? We've done this many times
@@ronjacobsen3264 and btw the "pallets of money" Obamna sent to lran actually belonged to lran, and we made a profit on that deal
@@curtisthomas2670 what does that have to do with negotiating with terrorists? We're hostages not released?
So they get the money and their people back? Again leading from behind as Hussein would say.
I'm not even surprised by what this administration does but am surprised that there are really people still that think he's doing a great job !
Why
Pay annual tribute to Chinese 🤬
What a bunch of bs. Obama 2.0
That money belonged to lran too
This is sad
Remember when people kept telling us Iran was 6 months away from nuclear weapons? It never happened. Fear and complaining rules American minds, I guess.
Ummm, can Iran use US money? xD
6 billion? Catch 22 👻
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