Republicans torch Biden paying Iran $6 billion for American hostages: 'a terrible deal' - WFIN Local News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "We are in touch with the families of U.S. citizens involved, and we continue to monitor these individuals' health and welfare closely.
52% : They must be allowed to depart Iran and reunite with their loved ones as soon as possible."
38% : "We have received confirmation that Iran has released from prison five Americans who were unjustly detained and has placed them on house arrest," National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
38% : According to the Times, Namazi, Sharghi, Tahbaz and a fourth American were transferred from the notorious Evin Prison to a hotel in the Iranian capital of Tehran, where they will be detained for another few weeks before being allowed to board a plane.
36% : The New York Times reported Thursday that Biden had negotiated the release of five American hostages from Iran in exchange for a handful of Iranian nationals serving prison sentences for violating sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
33% : BIDEN REACHES $6B DEAL TO FREE AMERICANS IN EXCHANGE FOR JAILED IRANIANSRepublicans blasted the deal online, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying Iran "shouldn't profit from holding Americans hostage."
26% : "Just when the American people thought Biden's foreign policy couldn't get any more disastrous, after his failed Afghanistan withdrawal, he kowtows to Iran," Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican, wrote.
21% : "Iran shouldn't profit from holding Americans hostage.""While I welcome home wrongfully detained Americans, unfreezing $6B in [Iranian] assets dangerously further incentivizes hostage taking [and] provides a windfall for regime aggression," Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jim Risch, R-Idaho, tweeted.
16% :"Releasing $6 billion to the butchers in Tehran just so American hostages can go to a different type of prison is a terrible deal," Pompeo wrote.

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