Foreign affairs chairman: ‘It was ransom’

Foreign affairs chairman: ‘It was ransom’

(CNSNews.com) – House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce said in an interview with Fox News today that the $400 million payment that the Obama administration made to Iran as it was releasing a group of Americans it had imprisoned was in fact ransom.

"It was ransom," said Royce.

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Foreign policy

Tina McCormick

This month, the NewBostonPost is focusing on foreign policy.

Much has changed in the world since Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." The specter of communism has vanished, defeated by those who recognized its inherent evil, its credibility destroyed by the close to 100 million dead it left behind. But the enemies of freedom remain, lurking under cover and within shifting alliances tinged in shades of grey.

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