Leading Democrat and Biden ally slams Iran hostage deal as break with US policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "In any instance where we would engage in such efforts to bring Americans home from Iran, Iran's own funds would be used and transferred to restricted accounts such that the monies can only be used for humanitarian purposes, which, as you know, is permitted under our sanctions," Blinken told reporters Thursday at the State Department.
50% :The deal this week comes in the wake of a U.S. decision to permit Iraq to pay "about $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran," an agreement that likewise was described as including a requirement that the money go to accounts "requiring U.S. permission for Iran to get access to them and only for spending on humanitarian goods," as Reuters reported in July.
46% : The agreement is intended to secure the return of five Americans who have languished in Iran for varying numbers of years; one detainee, Siamak Namazi, was seized by Iranian authorities in 2015.
41% : "That's the Biden illustrations or teaser or goodwill gesture for Iran to move forward with [this] deal because," Xiyue Wang, an American graduate student at Princeton University who was detained from 2016 to 2019 in Iran, told the Washington Examiner.
40% :That assertion contradicts Secretary of State Antony Blinken's stated confidence that the agreement, which affords access to billions of dollars that have been frozen in South Korean banks, would fall under a humanitarian exception to U.S. sanctions on Iran.
37% : "The decision on how to utilize these unfrozen resources and financial assets lies with the Islamic Republic of Iran," the Iranian foreign ministry said Friday.
22% : "We have to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapon nation," Hoyer said, per the Jerusalem Post.

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