There was only ONE instance when the US paid "ransom" to Iran...

[Uncensored2008]

Simplistic "answer" from a simple mind....Thanks.

Facts. The Contras fought the Soviet and democrat backed Sandinista regime. While the democrat/Soviet alliance worked to create a Soviet naval base on the North American Continent, the Contras with the CIA mined the deep water port to stop Soviet war ships. Now clearly you were loyal to the Soviets rather than the USA, as so many democrats were an are, but the lines were clear. Americans vs. democrats and their Soviet allies.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Moron, instead of reading comic books, pick up a history one and read about Iran's Mossadegh overthrow by the CIA because he wanted to charge more to BP for drilling Iranian oil.

Moron, quite lying and acknowledge that it was the BRITISH who deposed Mossadegh.Eisenhower went along with it, but it was a British act. Oh, and he wasn't going to "charge more," he SEIZED all the British assets.

 

[nat4900]

Facts. The Contras fought the Soviet and democrat backed Sandinista regime. While the democrat/Soviet alliance worked to create a Soviet naval base on the North American Continent, the Contras with the CIA mined the deep water port to stop Soviet war ships. Now clearly you were loyal to the Soviets rather than the USA, as so many democrats were an are, but the lines were clear. Americans vs. democrats and their Soviet allies.

Right wing morons sided 9and still do) with the Contras who were not much better than ISIS is today.....Be "proud" right wingers!

Americas Watch - which was subsequently folded into Human Rights Watch - stated that "the Contras systematically engage in violent abuses... so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war." It accused the Contras of:

targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination.
kidnapping civilians.
torturing civilians.
executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat.
raping women.
indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses.
seizing civilian property.
burning civilian houses in captured towns.

 

[nat4900]

Moron, quite lying and acknowledge that it was the BRITISH who deposed Mossadegh.Eisenhower went along with it, but it was a British act.

CIA-assisted coup overthrows government of Iran

The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran.

CIA-assisted coup overthrows government of Iran - Aug 19, 1953 - HISTORY.com

 

[nat4900]

Moron, quite lying and acknowledge that it was the BRITISH who deposed Mossadegh.Eisenhower went along with it, but it was a British act

OVERTHROW OF THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT

One of the best known covert actions of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was its role in the 1953 overthrow of the Iranian government headed by Mohammed Mossadegh and the subsequent installation of the Shah in to power.

Cold War Museum

 

[nat4900]

Moron, quite lying and acknowledge that it was the BRITISH who deposed Mossadegh.Eisenhower went along with it, but it was a British act.

CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup

The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, in documents that also show how the British government tried to block the release of information about its own involvement in his overthrow.

On the 60th anniversary of an event often invoked by Iranians as evidence of western meddling, the US national security archive at George Washington University published a series of declassified CIA documents.

"The military coup that overthrew Mosaddeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government," reads a previously excised section of an internal CIA history titled The Battle for Iran.

CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup

 

[nat4900]

50 Years After the CIA's First Overthrow of a Democratically Elected Foreign Government We Take a Look at the 1953 US Backed Coup in Iran

The coup was led by an agent named Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. The CIA leaned on a young, insecure Shah to issue a decree dismissing Mossadegh as prime minister. Kermit Roosevelt had help from Norman Schwarzkopf’s father: Norman Schwarzkopf.

The CIA and the British helped to undermine Mossadegh’s government through bribery, libel, and orchestrated riots. Agents posing as communists threatened religious leaders, while the US ambassador lied to the prime minister about alleged attacks on American nationals.

Some 300 people died in firefights in the streets of Tehran.

Mossadegh was overthrown, sentenced to three years in prison followed by house arrest for life.

The crushing of Iran’s first democratic government ushered in more than two decades of dictatorship under the Shah, who relied heavily on US aid and arms. The anti-American backlash that toppled the Shah in 1979 shook the whole region and helped spread Islamic militancy.

50 Years After the CIA's First Overthrow of a Democratically Elected Foreign Government We Take a Look at the 1953 US Backed Coup in Iran | Democracy Now!

 

[nat4900]

Back on topic.....(to better educate right wingers on this thread....but you can lead a horse to water,but you can't......etc.)


The Iran-Contra Affair involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security council (NSC) under President Ronald Reagan. The operation had two goals: first, to sell arms to Iran in the hope of winning the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and second, to illegally divert profits from these sales to the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Discovery of the secret operation, in 1986, triggered a legal and political uproar that rocked the Reagan administration. The numerous related investigations and indictments did not end until 1993 and even then questions remained about the roles of senior White House officials in this arms-for-hostages deal.

The affair came to public attention on November 3, 1986, when a Lebanese publication, Al-Shiraa, first reported that the United States had sold arms to Iran. The news was shocking because the Reagan administration had previously denounced Iran as a supporter of international terrorism. Shortly after the Al-Shiraa report Nicaraguan forces downed a U.S. plane and captured its pilot. The pilot's confession led to a second startling revelation: a private U.S. enterprise was supplying arms to Contra rebels.

The enterprise seemed designed to circumvent the will of Congress.

Iran-contra affair Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Iran-contra affair

 

[Uncensored2008]

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Right wing morons sided 9and still do) with the Contras who were not much better than ISIS is today.....Be "proud" right wingers!

Americas Watch - which was subsequently folded into Human Rights Watch - stated that "the Contras systematically engage in violent abuses... so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war." It accused the Contras of:

targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination.
kidnapping civilians.
torturing civilians.
executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat.
raping women.
indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses.
seizing civilian property.
burning civilian houses in captured towns.

You Soviets accused the Contras of all sorts of zany shit. Demagoguery has always been the main tool of you Communists.

Isn't it telling that your list of bullshit points to the methods of EVERY Communist insurgency in history? You are using the Alinsky method of accusing the opposition of doing what in fact YOU Communists were actually doing.

The Sandinista War on Human Rights
Unearthing A Grim Sandinista Legacy
Peasants Tell of Rights Abuses by Sandinistas
FrontPage Magazine - Remembering Sandinista Genocide

 

[Uncensored2008]

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CIA-assisted coup overthrows government of Iran

The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran.

CIA-assisted coup overthrows government of Iran - Aug 19, 1953 - HISTORY.com

Yep, we rightly supported the British... I already said that.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Back on topic.....(to better educate right wingers on this thread....but you can lead a horse to water,but you can't......etc.)


The Iran-Contra Affair involved a secret foreign policy operation directed by White House officials in the national security council (NSC) under President Ronald Reagan. The operation had two goals: first, to sell arms to Iran in the hope of winning the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and second, to illegally divert profits from these sales to the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Discovery of the secret operation, in 1986, triggered a legal and political uproar that rocked the Reagan administration. The numerous related investigations and indictments did not end until 1993 and even then questions remained about the roles of senior White House officials in this arms-for-hostages deal.

The affair came to public attention on November 3, 1986, when a Lebanese publication, Al-Shiraa, first reported that the United States had sold arms to Iran. The news was shocking because the Reagan administration had previously denounced Iran as a supporter of international terrorism. Shortly after the Al-Shiraa report Nicaraguan forces downed a U.S. plane and captured its pilot. The pilot's confession led to a second startling revelation: a private U.S. enterprise was supplying arms to Contra rebels.

The enterprise seemed designed to circumvent the will of Congress.

Iran-contra affair Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Iran-contra affair

Comrade, under the now subverted Constitution of the United States, which branch held exclusive power to conduct a foreign policy? Was it the Soviet 5th column under Jim Wright?

I realize you have never read the Constitution, and that the Constitution to leftists like you is like pouring salt on a slug (no offense to slugs.) Still, it would be interesting to know which branch is in charge of foreign policy?

 

[nat4900]

Comrade, under the now subverted Constitution of the United States, which branch held exclusive power to conduct a foreign policy? Was it the Soviet 5th column under Jim Wright?

I thought that you may have just one OUNCE of dignity left and simply stay away from this thread after your sorry ass was handed to you.....

But, instead, being a masochist moron.......here you are.........

 

[JBond]

.....and it is NOT on Obama's watch.....

The money received by Iran is NOT US or European or anyone else's money...It is IRANIAN money frozen in various banks.

So Obama blew off the Supreme Court ruling? Do you really believe that?

 

[nat4900]

So Obama blew off the Supreme Court ruling? Do you really believe that?

What the fuck are you talking about......."blew off the SC ruling???"

Go take a nap,

 

[Uncensored2008]

I thought that you may have just one OUNCE of dignity left and simply stay away from this thread after your sorry ass was handed to you.....

Are you under the influence of LSD?

Fucking retard.

 

[JBond]

So Obama blew off the Supreme Court ruling? Do you really believe that?

What the fuck are you talking about......."blew off the SC ruling???"

Go take a nap,

Hey tard. Pay attention. All frozen funds were to be used for the victims of Iranian terrorism. The supreme court ruled on it last spring. Obama filed on behalf of the victims and Ginsburg wrote the opinion. Go back to your drug induced haze now.

 

[nat4900]

Hey tard. Pay attention. All frozen funds were to be used for the victims of Iranian terrorism. The supreme court ruled on it last spring. Obama filed on behalf of the victims and Ginsburg wrote the opinion. Go back to your drug induced haze now.

We are NOT talking about the same Iranian funds here....
Why do I even bother with such right wing nitwits???

 

[JBond]

Hey tard. Pay attention. All frozen funds were to be used for the victims of Iranian terrorism. The supreme court ruled on it last spring. Obama filed on behalf of the victims and Ginsburg wrote the opinion. Go back to your drug induced haze now.

We are NOT talking about the same Iranian funds here....
Why do I even bother with such right wing nitwits???

The OP states there was only one paid. You lied. Sorry to call you out again, but when you insist on positing idiotic drivel, I will call you on it.

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Iran Must Pay American Bomb Victim Families
April 21, 2016, 4:43 AM EDT

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that almost $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to American families of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran.

The court’s 6-2 ruling dealt a setback to Iran’s central bank, finding that the U.S. Congress did not usurp the authority of American courts by passing a 2012 law stating that the frozen funds should go toward satisfying a $2.65 billion judgment won by the families against Iran in U.S. federal court in 2007.

 

[nat4900]

The OP states there was only one paid. You lied. Sorry to call you out again, but when you insist on positing idiotic drivel, I will call you on it.

Yes.....as already adequately documented, Reagan paid through as variety of schemes, to get our hostages out/

Now, you morons try to cloud the whole fucking issues with a bunch of other futile allegations..but go on, its nice that you're bumping up this thread and for that, I thank you.

 

[JBond]

The OP states there was only one paid. You lied. Sorry to call you out again, but when you insist on positing idiotic drivel, I will call you on it.

Yes.....as already adequately documented, Reagan paid through as variety of schemes, to get our hostages out/

Now, you morons try to cloud the whole fucking issues with a bunch of other futile allegations..but go on, its nice that you're bumping up this thread and for that, I thank you.

You are the other liberal tards keep repeating the same garbage. Obama took tax payer money and gave it to the Iranian military or he defied the Supreme Court ruling. Which is it?