{"id":2030672,"date":"2023-09-13T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-ransom-white-house-defends-controversial-prisoner-swap-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:40:07","slug":"not-a-ransom-white-house-defends-controversial-prisoner-swap-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-ransom-white-house-defends-controversial-prisoner-swap-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"White House defends Iran prisoner swap, denies ransom claims."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnot-a-ransom-white-house-defends-controversial-prisoner-swap-with-iran%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=2030672&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--><div>\n<h2>The White House Defends \u200bU.S.-Iran Prisoner Swap Deal<\/h2>\n<p>The White House on Wednesday defended a U.S.-Iran prisoner\u2062 swap deal that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-rips-kamala-harris-over-interview-i-couldnt-believe-it-not-a-way-of-working-together\/\" title=\"Democratic Senator Rips Kamala Harris Over Interview: \u2018I Couldn\u2019t Believe It,\u2019 \u2018Not A Way Of Working Together\u2019\">drawn criticism<\/a> from Republicans, emphasizing \u200dthat Iran receives no U.S. sanctions relief from the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, in a move necessary to facilitate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-ransom-white-house-defends-controversial-prisoner-swap-with-iran\/\" title=\"White House defends Iran prisoner swap, denies ransom claims.\">previously announced prisoner exchange<\/a>, waived sanctions on Monday to allow the\u2063 transfer of $6 billion in Iranian funds from South Korea to Qatar, as revealed \u200bin a U.S. document \u2063seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This\u2062 is <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">not<\/span> a payment of any kind. It&#8217;s <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">not<\/span> a <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">ransom<\/span>. These aren&#8217;t U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">taxpayer dollars<\/a>. We \u2062haven&#8217;t lifted a single one of our sanctions on Iran,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Kirby, the White House national\u2063 security spokesperson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-cori-bushs-campaign-faces-penalties-for-missing-financial-disclosure-deadline\/\" title=\"Rep. Cori Bush's campaign may be penalized for failing to meet the financial disclosure deadline.\">told \u200dreporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican lawmakers\u200b have criticized the White House for entering into this deal, arguing that it incentivizes Iran to take American hostages.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I am always \u200bglad\u200d when Americans are released from captivity,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1701371677509128266\">said<\/a> Monday. &#8220;However, this agreement will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-biden-an-incompetent-fool-for-giving-iran-access-to-6b-in-prisoner-swap\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes Biden for granting Iran access to B in prisoner swap, calling him an \"incompetent fool.\"\">entice rogue regimes<\/a>, \u2064like Iran, to\u2063 take even more Americans hostage. The ayatollah and his henchmen are terrorists and truly represent a terrorist state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Source:<\/h3>\n<p>Reporting by Jeff Mason\u2064 and\u2064 Steve Holland; editing by Jonathan Oatis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House defended the U.S.-Iran prisoner swap, countering Republican criticism by clarifying that Iran receives no sanctions relief. To facilitate the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian funds from South Korea to Qatar, the United States waived sanctions on Monday, an essential move for the deal&#8217;s execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2030673,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2030672","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}