Decades after the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Iran, the Americans taken hostage in that incident are finally receiving compensation, but not from the people who victimized them.
Tacked onto the already-impossibly expensive omnibus spending bill, the “United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism” fund assures that all 52 survivors of the embassy attack will be compensated for their misfortune. The thing is, the ones doing the compensating are us!
Yes, the government really decided that after Iran took 52 Americans hostage and held for them over a year, the American taxpayer should be the one paying out $4.4 million to each hostage instead of making the government that facilitated their being taken hostage cough up the cash. This is to say nothing of the $600,000 guaranteed to the families of each former hostage.
Make no mistake: the hostages deserve financial compensation, but it should be the guilty party that provides it.
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I don’t suppose with the $150 billion they can afford it
sicko
Brian Galumbeck, it’s not liberal communist Democrats that you need fear, it’s the fascist police state that’s developing apace. Your analogy with Nazism is more apt than you realise.
Kerry in laws. You know who he was for.
It’s insane that the American taxpayer should be footing this bill, rather than the f-ing Iranians who perpetrated the kidnapping!
We have so many people who think that when we are in a war that it is Americas fault but in truth it is keep this country safe from those that want to kill us like Obama and his band of mulsims that he is bring here and setting them up in WH, and all over this country so they can take control of our country. I pray God gives us safety till his return.
Taxpayers. You believe this fraud act?????
year forty years later.
We gave Iran and the Islamic countries enough money to more than compensate the victims at the Iranian Embassy. We did not cause them to be victims why should we pay for Iran’s debt.
Ragean kept the hostages in Iran until he became president to get the credit for their release. I am 100% sure of this because I was involved. I housed the families of the men who were held captive. Keep you insane judgements to yourself because you are too ignorant to have proper deductive reasoning. Regean should have been kicked out of the country for what his party did back then.