{"id":1997196,"date":"2023-08-10T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-denies-paying-ransom-for-us-hostages-irans-own-funds-would-be-used\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T00:33:07","slug":"blinken-denies-paying-ransom-for-us-hostages-irans-own-funds-would-be-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-denies-paying-ransom-for-us-hostages-irans-own-funds-would-be-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken denies ransom payment for US hostages, assures use of Iran&#8217;s funds."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblinken-denies-paying-ransom-for-us-hostages-irans-own-funds-would-be-used%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997196&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Iran Will\u2062 Not Receive Sanctions \u200cRelief in Exchange for American Hostages<\/h2>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony \u200bBlinken has made it clear that Iran will not receive\u200b any sanctions\u2063 relief as part of a \u200cdeal to secure\u2063 the release of five American\u200d hostages. Despite Tehran&#8217;s\u200d impending recovery of $6 billion, Blinken emphasized that\u200c Iran&#8217;s \u200bown \u2062funds would be used in any efforts to bring Americans home from Iran. He stated, &#8220;We will continue\u2062 to enforce all\u200c of our sanctions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Setback for Biden and Fed as Inflation \u200dTicks\u200d Up to \u20633.2% in July<\/h3>\n<p>In a setback for President Biden and the Federal\u2063 Reserve, inflation \u200chas ticked up to 3.2%\u200b in July. This news comes as Iranian officials announced the transfer of\u2063 five U.S. citizens \u200dinto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2021-cant-be-any-worse-can-it\/\" title=\"2021 Can't Be Any Worse, Can It?!\">house arrest<\/a>, marking a so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-denies-paying-ransom-for-us-hostages-irans-own-funds-would-be-used\/\" title=\"Blinken denies ransom payment for US hostages, assures use of Iran's funds.\">-called humanitarian cooperation agreement<\/a>. Blinken hailed this gesture as\u2063 &#8220;the beginning of the end of their \u200dnightmare,&#8221; while \u200dIranian officials celebrated the prospect of a multibillion windfall they have \u2062been seeking through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-almost-half-of-americans-say-biden-has-accomplished-little-or-nothing-despite-infrastructure-bill\/\" title=\"POLL: Almost Half Of Americans Say Biden Has Accomplished \u2018Little Or Nothing, Despite Infrastructure Bill\">lengthy negotiations<\/a> over the\u2062 renewal of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The process of releasing billions of dollars of Iranian assets, illegally seized \u200dby the \u200bU.S. for several years, has commenced,&#8221; \u200cwrote Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani \u200bon social media.\u200b &#8220;Tehran has received the guarantee of Washington&#8217;s commitments. The release of several Iranians who were\u200d illegally\u2064 detained in America is in this context.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, this\u2063 arrangement has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-demands-conservatives-have-a-backbone-in-speech-we-cant-have-cowardly-peopleat-this-moment-in-history\/\" title=\"Ron DeSantis Demands Conservatives \u2018Have A Backbone\u2019 In Speech: \u2018We Can\u2019t Have Cowardly People\u2026At This Moment In History\u2019\">faced sharp criticism<\/a> from Republicans \u200dand\u2063 other\u2064 critics of Iran&#8217;s hostage-taking practices. Xiyue Wang,\u2063 an American citizen \u2062and Princeton University graduate student who was seized in 2016 during a research trip \u200dto Iran, stated,\u200c &#8220;I am an example that the U.S. government can release \u2063American hostages WITHOUT paying ransom. Biden&#8217;s terrible \u2064deal is putting more Americans\u2063 in danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blinken&#8217;s team\u2062 has maintained their focus on \u2062the \u200cplight of \u2063the five current\u2063 hostages in their public statements on the deal. State Department \u2064spokesman\u2064 Matthew Miller assured, &#8220;We \u200bare in touch with the \u200bfamilies of U.S. citizens involved, and we continue to\u2063 monitor \u2062these individuals&#8217; health and welfare closely. While\u200b we \u200cwelcome the news of these individuals&#8217; release from prison to house arrest, they should never have been imprisoned in the first place. We continue\u200c to work diligently to bring these\u2062 individuals\u200b home to their loved ones. They must \u2064be allowed to depart Iran and reunite with their \u2062loved ones as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken clarified that Iran won&#8217;t be granted sanctions relief in exchange for releasing five American hostages. He stated that Iran&#8217;s own funds, amounting to $6 billion, would be utilized if any efforts were made to bring the Americans back from Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}