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The Obama administration is revealing newdetails about the links between a $400 million cash payment toIranand the release of four American prisoners in J stanley cup anuary.On Thursday, the State Department admitted for the first time that the cash and prisoner release were linked.Negotiations over the United Statesrsquo; paymentto Iranwereconducted separately from the prisoner talks, State Departments stanley water bottle pokesman John Kirby said. However, he acknowledged the U.S. withheld delivering the millions incashso itcould maximize its leverage until the U.S. citizens being held in Iran were released. More specifically, a senior U.S. official toldCBS Newsrsquo; Margaret Brennan that the administrationheld onto the cash deliberatelywhile itsdiplomats pushed forthe release of journalist Jason Rezaianrsquo mother and his wife.The prisoner transfer was supposed to happen on January 16th, 2016 mdash;the same day the nuclear deal was meant to go into effectmdash;but was delayed until January 17, stanley flask 2016 becauseIranian security forces inexplicably hid the Washington Post reporterrsquo wife and mother at the airport. The U.S. demanded Iranhand over all of the Americans, including Rezaianrsquo wife,who is an Iranian citizen.ASwiss Air Force plane sent to ferry the prisoners out of Tehran sat on the runway until the next day, January 17,when it finally departed with all the Americans on board. That was the same day the plane carrying the cash was allowed to Yiyp Palin Vs Gibson, Round 1
CBS/iStockphoto Ever since the announcement of President Obama s trip to the Middle East, the media have been buzzing about Mr. Obama s planned speech in Cairo. Now that the president has made the address, political analysts, journalists and others have lit up the Internet with their impressions. Many felt the speech was exceptionally moving and delivered the right message. Your heart would have to be made of basalt and dry ice would flow in your veins i stanley becher f you were not moved by Barack Obama s speech, Dahlia Scheindlin told the Huffington Post. President Obama talked about seeking similarities, not differences; a world view where people speak honestly, neither hiding painful truths, nor crippled by them. He viewed religion as a source of peace and reconciliation, rather than the fashionable-but-philistine view that it is the source of all evil. In the pre-Obama era, the only logical response would be a great big guffaw. Al Jazeera joined the many applauding Obama for his empathetic tone. The news network s political analyst said the address helped undo the harm done by the Bush administr stanley termosy ation. [The speech] was about willingness to engage in soft power while keeping the military option alive, Marwan Bishar stanley portugal a said. It reminded America of its new duties, of democracy, freedom ... without, at the same time, discounting the use of military power. Some were surprised by Mr. Obama s tone regarding Israel. Journalist Sabria Jawhar praise |
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