iranian hostage crisis
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Memorial held for ex-Lebanon hostage Thomas Sutherland
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Hundreds of people attended a memorial service Saturday at Colorado State University to honor Thomas Sutherland, a teacher who was held captive in Lebanon for more than six years until he was freed in 1991. Sutherland died last month in Fort Collins, where he taught animal science at Colorado State University. He was 85. His widow Jean Sutherland thanked…
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U.S. says $400 million payment to Iran was contingent on release of prisoners
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The Obama administration said Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran seven months ago was contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners. It is the first time the U.S. has so clearly linked the two events, which critics have painted as a hostage-ransom arrangement. State Department spokesman John Kirby repeated the administration’s…
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Kerry defends cash payment in wake of Iran deal
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A $400 million pallet of cash delivered to the Iranian government at the same time a complicated nuclear deal was settled and four Americans were released was unrelated and not a ransom, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. Kerry flatly denied any connection between the cash – and an additional $1.3 billion interest payment…
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BARTELS: Deputy SOS Suzanne Staiert: “That sense of duty toward country”
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Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert told a group of new U.S. citizens Wednesday there’s a reason she feels such a bond with them when she attends naturalization ceremonies. ‘My father and mother met on a U.S. campus. My father’s Iranian, my mother’s American,” she said. “When we were very young we went over…
