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13059024, That's the whole point, though. You have it backwards.
Posted by stravinskian, Fri Aug-19-16 10:16 AM
It wasn't that they wouldn't release them until we paid up. It was that *we* wouldn't have paid up if *they* didn't release them. The financial settlement and the prisoner release were still two different deals, but we timed them in such a way that if Iran reneged on one deal, then they would be endangering the other.
As Kirby noted, it would have been treated as a much bigger scandal if we made the installment on the financial settlement without first ensuring the prisoner release would go through.
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