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Charleston,
SC
- Senator
Tim
Scott
issued
the
statement
below
following
the
State
Department
admitting
this
afternoon
they
used
a
$400
million
payment
to
Iran
as
“leverage”
to
release
American
prisoners.
"After
weeks
of
denials,
the
administration
is
finally
admitting
they
gave
Iran
$400
million
in
ransom
payments.
We
are
all
happy
to
see
Americans
unjustly
imprisoned
in
Iran
return
home,
but
the
President
has
set
a
dangerous
precedent
and
put
a
price
on
American
lives.
This
reckless
decision
making
and
lack
of
transparency
only
adds
to
the
American
public’s
distrust
of
this
administration's
dangerous
foreign
policy."
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