Republicans 'asked Iran to delay prisoner swap' until after US election

[kpete]

Treason if true.


Latest update : 2016-02-12
Members of the US Republican Party asked officials in Tehran to delay a January prisoner swap until after the 2016 presidential election, an Iranian admiral told FRANCE 24 on Thursday.

Iran released four US citizens being held in Iran on January 16, including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian. In return the US said it was offering clemency to seven Iranians being held for sanctions violations and dropped charges against 14 more.

In his first interview with French media, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, who is secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, told FRANCE 24 that US Republicans – wary of allowing President Barack Obama to win a public relations victory ahead of the US presidential election in November – asked for the swap to be put on hold.

“We were carrying out negotiations with the Obama administration, when representatives of the Republican Party got in touch with us,” Shamkhani said. “As a favour, they asked us to do what we could to hinder the talks and to push them back until after the next US presidential elections – in other words, after President Obama's departure.”

“I felt that this rivalry at the heart of American power was inappropriate,” Shamkhani added.

http://www.france24.com/en/20160212-republicans-asked-iran-delay-prisoner-swap-until-after-us-election?dlvrit=65413

[malaise]

1. Name them

Expose them

LG and JMC - I'm betting (all Bushies)

[randome]

5. If they don't name them, the story won't 'sell'.

But it sounds all-too-plausible from the 'You lie!' crowd. The snickering simpletons.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[leveymg]

29. GHW, RWR, Mosadeq, just read Gary Sick. We have all been here before.

And the band plays on . . .

[Nye Bevan]

2. I hope they record all of their telephone calls.

Or perhaps it was an email?

[spanone]

3. well, it worked for ronald reagan. traitors.

[kacekwl]

8. And Nixon.

[pa28]

23. I don't know why people find it so hard to believe they've done it once before.

And it worked beautifully for them.

[ShrimpPoboy]

4. That's hard to believe

Even for Republicans. Going to have to give my countrymen the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

[Wilms]

9. Have you googled "October Surprise"?

Who needs "belief" when you can have knowledge?

[ShrimpPoboy]

11. I know what an October surprise is, thanks.

But what's being alleged is a criminal conspiracy and treason of a very high order. I'm going to need more than the word of the Iranian military to believe it.

[Wilms]

13. The "October Surprise" WAS a criminal conspiracy.

And treason to boot. You don't seem to be aware of what it is in context to the 1980 election. Are you?

[ShrimpPoboy]

15. I am.

And it was investigated. Same thing should happen here.

[retread]

10. Same "benefit of the doubt" given to Nixon and Reagan?

[ShrimpPoboy]

14. In general terms, yes.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Similarly, however, it's a serious charge that merits investigation. There were congressional hearings on the Iran hostage allegations. I would support the same here.

[catnhatnh]

18. Here's proof of Nixon

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason


This is an age old republican pattern.

[catnhatnh]

19. Here's Reagan:

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20287-without-reagans-treason-iran-would-not-be-a-problem

[GreatGazoo]

6. Just wait until our MSM gets a hold of this story! Why they'll be on this

for months like they did for Benghazi. Congress will demand hearing after hearing....


NOT

[SamKnause]

7. Republicans are above the law.

They are the law in the U.S.

That is why this country is so f**ked up.

They have complete control when they are in the minority.

They have complete control when they are in the majority.

It seems the Democratic party never has the mandate and sucks

at using the bully pulpit.

The spineless establishment Democratic party is either terrified

of the Republicans or they have the same agenda.

If they do anything wrong or illegal, president Obama will instruct

us all to look forward not backwards.

The corruption will not stop.

The underhanded tactics will not stop.

Their subversive tactics will not stop.

The Republican Party and the Tea Party sicken me.

The Democratic Party allowing this country to be overtaken

by evil imbeciles is unforgivable.

FEEL THE BERN

[B Calm]

12. The traitors need to be named and put behind bars!

[Javaman]

16. I certainly hope that when these prisoners are eventually released

that someone tells them in no uncertain terms that the repukes intentionally delayed their release.

heartless, simply heartless.

[DirkGently]

17. Sounds like H.W. Bush / Reagan with Iran in 1980.

Specific allegations have been made that the Reagan/Bush Campaign Chairman William J. Casey [later head of the CIA] and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush flew to Madrid and Paris for secret meetings with Iranian representatives.

After twelve years of mixed media attention, both houses of the U.S. Congress held separate inquiries and concluded that the allegations lacked supporting documentation.

Later, researchers found a document in the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library confirming that Casey had flown to Madrid for "unspecified reasons"--which both the Reagan and Bush administrations previously had vigorously denied. Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana, who headed both the House of Representatives and governmental inquires into the "October Surprise allegations, said that the document withheld by the Bush administration "could have changed" the committees' conclusions.[2]

Several individuals—most notably former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr,[3] former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, former Naval intelligence officer and National Security Council staff member Gary Sick; and former Reagan/Bush campaign and White House staffer Barbara Honegger—have stood by the allegation. Some contend that, as the allegations have been made by several people in a position to know (such as former Iranian President Bani Sadr, former National Security Council member Gary Sick, and former Reagan/Bush campaign and White House staffer Honneger], they are not a "conspiracy theory" but rather disputed factual allegations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory

However all that actually went down, it always seemed like terribly odd timing that Reagan's inauguration magically inspired Iran to let our people go.

[Fast Walker 52]

20. It's treason, all right. The Iranians are backing up this story

This would be HUGE if it weren't for Scalia dying.

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/2016/02/11/bombshell-iran-reveals-republicans-tried-to-delay-release-of-us-prisoners-until-after-election/

[Gabi Hayes]

21. I've been unable to stay away from cablenews

since the happy announcement yesterday, and not ONCE has this been mentioned

what a surprise

[Fast Walker 52]

24. such a coinky-dinky, ain't it?

[jwirr]

22. Here we are back to playing the raygun game against Jimmy

Carter. I wonder how much they have offered to pay them?

[L. Coyote]

25. k & r

[PearliePoo2]

26. It's always party before country for these bastards.

I loathe and detest them.

[kentuck]

27. They have no names.

Bummer.

[spanone]

28. IRAN thought it was inappropriate ....and it was.

print the names

[yuiyoshida]

30. I really wish these Republicans would

get an ass kicking, for delaying prisoners for political gain.

[kryptoniandawn]

31. Snopes isn't so sure

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