{"id":2028564,"date":"2023-09-11T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gives-iran-access-to-6-billion-in-prisoner-swap\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:10:22","slug":"biden-gives-iran-access-to-6-billion-in-prisoner-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gives-iran-access-to-6-billion-in-prisoner-swap\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden grants Iran $6B in prisoner exchange."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fbiden-gives-iran-access-to-6-billion-in-prisoner-swap%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=2028564&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>The Biden Administration \u200bStrikes Deal to Release American Prisoners in Exchange for Iranian Prisoners and Frozen \u200bAssets<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has \u2062made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-snubs-gop-leaders-on-new-iran-diplomacy\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Snubs GOP Leaders on New Iran Diplomacy\">significant move<\/a> by approving a deal to release five Iranian prisoners and unfreeze $6 billion in assets in exchange for the freedom of\u200b five Americans held captive in Iran. \u2063This development,\u200d which Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on last\u200c week, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-incoming-congresswoman-announces-objection-to-electoral-college-votes\/\" title=\"Another Incoming Congresswoman Announces Objection To Electoral College Votes\">officially announced<\/a> on Monday, coinciding with the \u2063commemoration of \u2064the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror\u2062 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In this agreement, the United States\u200d will grant a waiver \u200cto banks in\u2064 South Korea\u200b and Qatar, allowing Iran access to billions of \u2062dollars without violating U.S.\u2064 sanctions. \u2063The\u200c funds will\u200d be transferred to Qatar&#8217;s \u2064central \u2064bank, where\u2064 the Iranian government can request to use the money for humanitarian goods.<\/p>\n<p>Iran,\u2062 known for its\u2063 support of terrorism, has faced strict U.S. \u200bsanctions since \u200dformer President Donald Trump withdrew from\u200b the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.\u200c Trump&#8217;s decision was driven by concerns that the agreement would enable Iran to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gives-iran-access-to-6-billion-in-prisoner-swap\/\" title=\"Biden grants Iran B in prisoner exchange.\">develop nuclear \u200dweapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Efforts to Revive the Iran Nuclear Deal<\/h3>\n<p>The Biden administration has been actively\u200d working to revive the Iran nuclear deal,\u2064 although negotiations have been on hold for \u2063several months. The \u200dWhite House has prioritized improving relations with Iran in order to restore the agreement, \u2062and \u200bthe prisoner swap may be seen as a tentative step towards de-escalation by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>News of the \u2064finalized deal coincided with President Biden&#8217;s remarks on the anniversary of 9\/11, which he delivered from Alaska. During his speech,\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citizens-gather-in-washington-d-c-for-save-america-rally\/\" title=\"Citizens gather in Washington, D.C. for \u2018Save America Rally\u2019\">president claimed<\/a> that he visited\u2062 Ground Zero the day after \u2064the Twin Towers fell, describing the scene as \u200blooking like\u200c &#8220;the gates of hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIDEN:\u200d &#8220;Ground Zero in New York \u2014 I remember standing there the\u200c next day and looking at \u2062the building. I felt like I \u2064was looking through the \u2063gates of hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On September 12, 2001, Biden was \u2062in \u2064Washington, D.C., for a Senate session. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vUyu63KXcV\">pic.twitter.com\/vUyu63KXcV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200bRNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1701345112968901101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Biden has faced criticism for \u2064choosing to travel to Alaska\u200d instead of attending the \u20649\/11 memorial ceremonies in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Former New York City\u200c Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik\u2063 expressed his disgust at Biden&#8217;s absence from these solemn events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s disgusting. \u200dI got to be honest, I was disgusted with the fact that Biden wasn&#8217;t going to be there or attend any ceremony \u200cwhether\u2062 it was New York, Shanksville, D.C.,\u200c Pentagon,&#8221; Kerik stated, according to Just The News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration approved a deal to free five Iranians and release $6 billion in frozen assets in exchange for five captive Americans in Iran. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave his approval last week, and Congress was notified on Monday during the commemoration of the September anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2028565,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2028564","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}