{"id":51688,"date":"2023-08-24T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51688"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:35:26","slug":"something-to-watch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51688","title":{"rendered":"Something To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all remember the horrendous nuclear deal the Obama administration attempted to broker with Iran. It looks like the Biden administration is attempting the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-senators-warn-that-biden-is-bypassing-congress-to-enter-nuclear-deal-with-iran?fbclid=IwAR1ae-58xYt-asiBfcFIxbEcOOg7DPHDQ6QGYE3xKaVX_IAACMJnBeCZ3KE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A group of 26 Republican senators raised concerns about the Biden administration bypassing congressional authority to agree to a nuclear deal with Iran.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/6\/4\/649f0f21-6296-48ff-a0d4-026c9636df1c\/529744420C83DEDFDC342FA706C3A41E.scott-colleagues-demand-answers-after-biden-admin-releases-6-billion-to-iran-in-secret-negotiation1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> \u2014 signed by the majority of Senate Republicans last week and addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen \u2014 the lawmakers voiced concerns with the Biden administration\u2019s recent prisoner swap that sent $6 billion to the Iranian regime in a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=press-releases&amp;id=D1661FC7-EBA5-4024-A8AA-B96F84F595F8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secret negotiation<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When are we going to send $6 billion to Hawaii?<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWhen the Obama administration released $400 million in liquidated assets to Iran in 2016, we warned that this dangerous precedent would put a price on American lives. Seven years later, the current administration is providing a ransom payment worth at least fifteen times that amount to the world\u2019s largest state sponsor of terror, in yet another violation of the United States\u2019 long-standing \u2018no concessions\u2019 policy,\u201d the senators wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe release of such a significant sum to the Iranian regime runs entirely counter to that claim and will only serve to encourage additional hostage taking for financial or political gain,\u201d the letter continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The letter comes after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-intelligence-chairman-biden-prisoner-swap-with-iran-involves-nuclear-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> earlier this month that the Biden administration\u2019s prisoner swap with Iran involved a renewed Iran nuclear deal. The New York Times also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/10\/us\/politics\/iran-us-prisoner-swap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the agreement could increase the chances of Biden pursuing his goal of coming to the table with Iran over nuclear weapons. Last summer, Biden attempted to renew the Obama administration\u2019s nuclear deal but ultimately failed. In 2018, former President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement he routinely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/08\/world\/middleeast\/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThis%20was%20a%20horrible%20one,transcript%20of%20President%20Trump's%20remarks.%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> as \u201chorrible\u201d and \u201cone-sided.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America is rapidly going bankrupt. Sending billions of dollars to countries that hate us is not a wise expenditure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all remember the horrendous nuclear deal the Obama administration attempted to broker with Iran. It looks like the Biden administration is attempting the same thing. On Tuesday, The Daily Wire reported the following: A group of 26 Republican senators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,246,8788,13784,11823,16908],"class_list":["post-51688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-treaty-with-iran","tag-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken","tag-the-daily-wire","tag-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51689,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688\/revisions\/51689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}