Biden Admin, Iran Reach $6B Deal: 'Largest Hostage Ransom Payment' US in History

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "It's good news that American hostages, illegally seized by the regime in Iran, are coming home.
48% : He explains the Biden Administration is unfreezing a $6 billion oil payment from South Korean companies to Iran.
47% : Genser contends the U.S. is not sending any U.S. money to Iran as part of the agreement.
47% : "While we always welcome the release of American hostages - if they are in fact released after President Biden pays Iran $6 billion in ransom - this craven act of appeasement will only embolden the ayatollahs to take more hostages and use these ill-gotten gains to attack our troops, fund terrorism and arm Russia," said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).
44% : Jared Genser, the lawyer for Mr. Namazi, said that as of Thursday all five prisoners were released from Evin Prison and are currently at a hotel in Tehran.
41% : The Biden administration has agreed to pay Iran $6 billion for the release of five imprisoned Americans, but experts say this will only encourage Iran to seek more hostages as a "lucrative means of international extortion for Iran's supreme leader." The United States and Iran reached a deal on August 10 for Tehran's release of five wrongfully detained Iranian-Americans in exchange for the release of several Iranian prisoners jailed in the U.S. and access to $6 billion in sanctioned oil revenue that's being held in South Korea.
40% : At more than $1 billion per hostage, Iran, Russia, and China will be more likely to take Americans hostage, not less."
37% : "I think it is important to emphasize that the U.S. is not going to pay a single penny to Iran in the context of fulfilling this deal."

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