GOP skeptical of Biden administration's prisoner swap with Iran
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98% Very Conservative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
60% : "But Iran is clear that it has other plans.54% : "The Biden admin says that Iran will use ransom payments for humanitarian purposes only," Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said last week.
50% : On Monday, five Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran left the country and will return to the United States in the coming days.
44% : Similarly, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) told the Washington Examiner he's "immensely relieved that the five Americans held hostage by Iran are finally reunited with their families and on their way home.
43% : Iran has used sanctions relief to fund terrorism before.
41% : The funds represent money South Korea owed Iran, but hadn't paid, for oil purchased before the U.S. imposed sanctions on such transactions in 2019, and that money will be transferred to Qatar.
39% : ANOTHER INDICTMENT"We have received confirmation that the 5 freed Americans and 2 American family members are wheels up in Tehran and en route to Doha," a senior administration official said on Monday morning.
38% : "National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was "wrong" when the Iranian leader claimed that they will use the money "wherever we need it."CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINERSen. John Thune (R-SD) said on Facebook, "The U.S. should be unrelenting in its efforts to bring detained Americans home, but Iran will now count pallets of ransom money, putting its leaders in a better position to develop a nuclear weapon and fund terrorists.
35% : U.S. citizens should not travel to Iran; the risks are far too great, and the potential consequences are catastrophic.
34% : "Iran has not changed its ways, and very importantly, has not provided a full account of the fate of U.S. hostage Robert Levinson, who is presumed to have died in Iranian custody.
33% : He also called for Tehran to "give a full account of what happened to Bob Levinson, a former U.S. federal agent who disappeared in 2007 and is presumed to have died in the custody of the Iranian government.
30% : Biden administration officials have downplayed the possibility of Tehran using the money for nefarious purposes, which will still be under restrictions and only available for a limited number of humanitarian transactions.
27% : In exchange, President Joe Biden granted clemency to five Iranians charged with crimes in the U.S., two of whom had been convicted and sentenced, and the U.S. gave Iran additional access to roughly $6 billion of their own money that had been frozen overseas.
11% : Republicans on Capitol Hill have criticized the Biden administration's prisoner swap with Iran that resulted in the return of every American legally considered wrongfully detained from Tehran.
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