Iranian IRGC officer advises taking US hostages to make up for sanctions

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Iranian IRGC officer suggests taking US hostages to make up for sanctions

Al Arabia, January 24, 2019:

A video surfaced online Wednesday of an official Iranian political strategist suggesting that Iran should take Americans hostage because their lucrative ransoms would make up for sanctions on the country.

“Do you want to solve the sanctions problem? 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 IRGC officer Hassan Abbasi said.

The widely shared video shows Abbasi, who also heads the IRGC-affiliated think-tank Andishkadeh Yaghin, giving a speech on January 17 reportedly in a mosque in the Iranian city of Nowshahr.

In the video, the strategist makes an example of Jason Rezaian, the Iranian-American journalist who served as the Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post. He spent a year and a half between trial and Evin Prison until he was released in 2016.

The Obama administration denied any link between the payment, which it said was a settlement to end a dispute over a failed arms deal, and the prisoner exchange at the time.

Abbasi also said that the Iranian government received $3 million from Qatar in blood money for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, in what could be a reference to Doha’s role in housing the base from which the drones used in the attacks were launched.

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani went to Iran to offer condolences on the killing of the former commander of the IRGC, Qassem Soleimani.

 

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

I don’t think that would play out well for the mullahs

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

It worked out very well for those creatures … from ’79 on to today. Jimmy The-Worthless-One Carter didn’t strike back. Ronnie The Commie Reagan didn’t strike back. Neither did Clownton or the Booshies or Obimbo. Perhaps, finally, President Trump can end the war, that’s been ongoing since Worthless … and kill each and every perjuhn …. Death to them all.

MAS
MAS
4 years ago

Just like the RINOs and Democrats, the Iranians don’t know how to figure out President Trump. DJT isn’t like recent previous presidents, he’ll hand them their rear ends if they try kidnapping…

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Good points. The IRGC and the mullahs are forgetting about “Conventional Prompt Global Strike”. This is a family of US systems that can destroy a specific target anywhere on earth within 60 minutes or less. One simple form of this is an ICBM armed with a conventional warhead. Since ICBMs travel at about 18,000 miles per hour, they have tremendous momentum, and can make a huge crater, even with no explosives on board. Certainly enough to take out the IRGC headquarters in Tehran, or the residence of the supreme leader, Khomeini.
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“Report to Congress on Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles”
https://news.usni.org/2019/01/10/report-congress-conventional-prompt-global-strike-long-range-ballistic-missiles

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Totally agree. With that technology surely those Ragheads could be taken out and most Iranians would be thankful for that.

Name
Name
4 years ago

It is time to take out the mullahs and free the Iranian people. Enough trying to be diplomatic with this crud.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Name

It’s up to the Iranian people to do that.
NO MORE USELESS WARS.
Many of us have had enough of the John Bolton mindset.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Sanctions are working. They re getting hard up for money.
Leave it to the DEMS to object to sanctions.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

What a great idea! We should take Iranian hostages and do the same!

Fred
Fred
4 years ago

Iran should have been wiped off the map in 1979.

Trump 2020!

Pamela Geller / Tomi Lahren 2024!

Jamfer Jones
Jamfer Jones
4 years ago

Hey Iran don’t you remember what President Trump said about advertising your military plans? Now USA citizens will be ready and avoid getting close to Iran without adequate armed protection. Any citizen that ignores the warning deserves what they get.

tagfu222
tagfu222
4 years ago

Obama used stealth to send them them plane load of cash in a cargo plane.

Trump would do something similar. But it would be a plane load of JDAMs in a B2.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

A definite sign of desperation. Obhammud’s original intent in signing the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, an international treaty never presented for Congressional approval, was to shift the balance of power in the Middle East away from Israel.

Now that his cash gift flown into Tehran in the dead of night is just about about spent on “toys” and terrorism, they are so broke they couldn’t buy a sick whore a drink.

Legion113
Legion113
4 years ago

Not like we’re dealing with braniacs over there…..they can’t even tell the difference between a commercial flight and combat planes…

danE DanE
danE DanE
4 years ago

JESUS IS COMING SOON!!
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Owen_Morgan
Owen_Morgan
4 years ago

With any luck, Hassan Abbasi now has a big target on his back.

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