'It Will Free up $6B for Terrorism': Biden Admin Cuts a Deal with Iran for 5 US Hostages

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : While Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the deal last week, the Associated Press reports Congress was not notified until yesterday.
51% : ***But Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told NBC News that his government will decide how it will spend the $6 billion adding the money will be spent "wherever we need it.""This money belongs to the Iranian people, the Iranian government, so the Islamic Republic of Iran will decide what to do with this money," he said, according to an Iranian government translator.
44% : The two countries reached a deal on August 10 paving the way for Iran to release the American prisoners in exchange for five Iranians held in the U.S.The freed Iranians include Siamak Namazi, Emad Sharghi, Morad Tahbaz, and two unnamed individuals whose families want their identities to remain anonymous.
43% : No money is going directly to Iran and no U.S. taxpayer funds are being used, Fox News reports.
41% : It's ridiculous for [the U.S] to be blackmailed into paying $6B for hostages which will help indirectly finance the number 1 foreign policy of Iran: terrorism.
33% : Experts have warned that the terms of the prisoner exchange allude to a brewing foreign policy nightmare for the U.S."It's good news that American hostages, illegally seized by the regime in Iran, are coming home.

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