"We do not pay ransom. We didn't here, and we won't in the future," Obama said after reports emerged that the United States delivered palettes of cash to Tehran on the same day the prisoners were freed.
"Those families know we have a policy that we don't pay ransom," Obama said. "And the notion that we would somehow start now, in this high-profile way, and announce it to the world, even as we're looking in the faces of other hostage families whose loved ones are being held hostage, and saying to them we don't pay ransom, defies logic."
"Obama on Iran Payment: 'We Do Not Pay Ransom'" CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 07 Aug. 2016. Obama dismissed this as a coincidence that the money arrived and the same day American hostages were released from Iran. I want a formal explanation.
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