Iran Says They Can Use the Cash for Hostages Gifted to Them By Biden Any Way They Wish

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% :Iran will continue research and development program on advanced centrifuge machines and will be also able to keep initiating and completing its R & D program on IR-4, IR-5, IR-6 and IR-8 machines in the 10-year period of the agreement.
55% : But Iran claims it could continue developing the far faster and more efficient machines.
54% : But Qatar is good friends with Tehran, so if Iran wants to claim that an ICBM has "humanitarian" uses, they are not likely to contradict that.
53% : Accordingly, Iran will be allowed to allocate the current stockpile of enriched materials for the purpose of producing nuclear fuel or swapping it with uranium in the international markets.
51% : According to the agreement announced yesterday, Qatar will play referee and decide whether Iran is using the cash under the conditions stipulated by the Biden administration.
50% : Iran has a different idea.
47% : On modernizing their centrifuge machines, the U.S. was crystal clear:Iran will dismantle two-thirds of its 19,000 installed centrifuges.
46% : Related: Biden Admin Set to Buy Back Five U.S. Hostages From Iran for $6 BillionPredictably, the Iranians have an entirely different take on part of the agreement-specifically, the cash.
44% : Tehran will be left with 6,104 centrifuges, lower than some reported offers by the U.S., and 5,060 of those can be used to enrich uranium.
43% : I'm not sure if it's because Iran sees itself as holier than the U.S. or what, but any agreement we've made with them has always been open to what their interpretation of the agreement will be.
42% : "The process of releasing billions of dollars from the assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which were illegally seized in South Korea by the United States for several years, has begun," Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement.
41% : But at least the five Americans have been transferred from Evin Prison to a hotel in Tehran.
40% : Iran has apparently agreed to release five American hostages from prison in return for releasing several Iranians in American prisons and $6 billion in cash.
37% : We're going to have to wait for the other shoe to drop to find out what else Iran is demanding besides the $6 billion in greenbacks before our citizens can come home.
37% : Except Iran had an entirely different take on many of the issues that we believed we had negotiated.
37% :Iran was prohibited from developing advanced centrifuges.
35% : "The decision on how to utilize these unfrozen resources and financial assets lies with the Islamic Republic of Iran."
18% : Meanwhile, Iran is thumbing its nose at the U.S., which claims that Iran can only use the cash to buy food and humanitarian aid.

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