The State Department insisted Tuesday that Iran has no reason to believe that the U.S. will honor ransom demands for the release of dual U.S.-Iranian citizens or others with close western ties imprisoned in Iran.
“I can’t speak to the motivation behind these detentions, but if there’s a perception out there, if one of the motivations were to secure ransom, it is a false perception — it is wrong,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday.
“What I can say again is that we do not pay ransom. We don’t pay ransom,” he said. “We didn’t then, we don’t now. We’re not going to change that policy going forward.” – READ MORE
