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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said a recent prisoner exchange between Iran and the US went ahead as planned despite calls by Republicans for a delay until US presidential elections.

“In the course of the talks for exchanging prisoners, the Republican rivals of the current US administration who claim to be humanitarians and advocates of human rights sent a message telling us not to release these people (American prisoners) and continue this process (of talks) until the eve of US presidential elections,” Shamkhani said Thursday in an address to a rally held in the central city of Yazd to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution’s victory.

“However” he said “we acted upon our independent resolve and moved the process forward.”

Iran’s move to exchange prisoners was based on the country’s humanitarian approach and was made in accordance with ensuring the country’s interests and securing the release of Iranian citizens in the US, he added.

Shamkhani underlined that on the issue of prisoner swap, Iran proved that it is not influenced by any foreign or domestic pressure but acts against spies and infiltrators decisively.

Iran on January 16 released four prisoners with dual citizenship based on a decision by the country’s Supreme National Security Council within the framework of a prisoner swap.

Amir Mirzaee Hekmati, Jason Rezaian, Saeed Abedini, and Nosratollah Khosravi who hold US citizenship were among the released prisoners.

On the same day, 7 Iranian nationals imprisoned in US jails were released as per the prisoner swap.

The release of the inmates came hours before the official start of a nuclear deal finalized by Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) back in July 2015.

With the enforcement of the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), all nuclear-related anti-Iran sanction were terminated.

http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/02/11/998130/us-republicans-had-urged-iran-to-delay-prisoner-swap-shamkhani-says

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I'd love for a more reputable news source to dig into this and find out if there's any truth to it. That seems pretty cynical and cold-hearted, even for politicians.

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If you believe the Iranians, it might be.

Incredible isn't it. If all else fails, use political propaganda to blame the Republicans. This kind of crap isn't about political parties, it is about our country vs. evil.

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I'd love for a more reputable news source to dig into this and find out if there's any truth to it. That seems pretty cynical and cold-hearted, even for politicians.

Exactly and maybe they could name ONE Republican.

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If true, yet another example of unprecedented obstruction by the GOP during Obama's Presidency. It's actually amazing the amount of progress we've made if you think about it, given what he has to deal with and how little he has to work with on the other side.

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If true, yet another example of unprecedented obstruction by the GOP during Obama's Presidency. It's actually amazing the amount of progress we've made if you think about it, given what he has to deal with and how little he has to work with on the other side.

What progress are you speaking of? And let's not fool ourselves, this doesn't have precedent. Except it was Ted Kennedy who worked with the Soviets in trying to undermine Ronald Reagan.

It's funny, some here will believe an Iranian news agency before they believe anything from Fox. Which Republicans were supposedly behind this? Which names were associated with this so-called plan?

At this point, this has about as much validity as the Peyton Manning HGH story. Which is zero.

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If true, yet another example of unprecedented obstruction by the GOP during Obama's Presidency. It's actually amazing the amount of progress we've made if you think about it, given what he has to deal with and how little he has to work with on the other side.

What progress are you speaking of? And let's not fool ourselves, this doesn't have precedent. Except it was Ted Kennedy who worked with the Soviets in trying to undermine Ronald Reagan.

It's funny, some here will believe an Iranian news agency before they believe anything from Fox. Which Republicans were supposedly behind this? Which names were associated with this so-called plan?

At this point, this has about as much validity as the Peyton Manning HGH story. Which is zero.

It's also funny that the title of the thread is stated as a fact without a shred of evidence except the word of evil people.

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If true, yet another example of unprecedented obstruction by the GOP during Obama's Presidency. It's actually amazing the amount of progress we've made if you think about it, given what he has to deal with and how little he has to work with on the other side.

What progress are you speaking of? And let's not fool ourselves, this doesn't have precedent. Except it was Ted Kennedy who worked with the Soviets in trying to undermine Ronald Reagan.

It's funny, some here will believe an Iranian news agency before they believe anything from Fox. Which Republicans were supposedly behind this? Which names were associated with this so-called plan?

At this point, this has about as much validity as the Peyton Manning HGH story. Which is zero.

It's also funny that the title of the thread is stated as a fact without a shred of evidence except the word of evil people.

It is funny because the thread title is the same as the title of the article linked...

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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?
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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?

Cultish? The Puritans did just as much so were they evil too?
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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?

Cultish? The Puritans did just as much so were they evil too?

The ones that did those things certainly were.

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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?

Cultish? The Puritans did just as much so were they evil too?

The ones that did those things certainly were.

http://humanismbyjoe.co/dark-side-of-the-puritan-ethic/

Are we a nation built on Christian beliefs or not? ( rhetorical question.)

"Sex researcher Aileen Goodson, Ph.D., states the Puritans who came to America emphasized biblical interpretations that considered the human body as inherently impure and depraved. She further reports they “had neither the time nor the inclination for frivolity. Their body guilt and shame became the law of the land, and this law was even more extreme in the United States than overseas.”

The anti-sex attitude of the Puritans is also described by historian John Demos. He reports that throughout the seventeenth century, the Puritans in Plymouth Colony had “a steady succession of trials and convictions for sexual offenses involving single persons. ‘Fornication,’ in particular, was a familiar problem.” Demos says the punishment for fornication was “a fine of ten pounds or a public whipping – and applied equally to both parties.”

Although the Puritans had serious and even pathological hang-ups about pleasure, they were into violence. Calvin’s Geneva beheaded adulterers. Religious dissenters were hanged, decapitated, or burned at the stake. Christopher Hitchens describes Calvin as “a sadist and torturer and killer, who burned Servetus (one of the great thinkers and questioners of the day) while the man was still alive.”

In England, Oliver Cromwell’s Bible-carrying, hymn-singing Puritan army became notorious for slaughtering Anglicans at home and Catholics in Ireland.

Puritans in Massachusetts set up a religious police state in which deviation from their religion could result in flogging, pillorying, hanging, banishment, having one’s ears cut off, or having one’s tongue bored through with a hot iron. Four Quakers were hanged in Boston after repeated whippings and banishments failed to drive them away. President Taft was obviously correct in commenting that the Puritans “came to this country to establish freedom of their religion, not the freedom of anybody else’s religion"

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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?

Saudi Arabia?

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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?

Cultish? The Puritans did just as much so were they evil too?

Who the hell are the Puritans ? I'm talking TODAY , jack wagon.

You just can't answer the question.

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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?

Cultish? The Puritans did just as much so were they evil too?

Who the hell are the Puritans ? I'm talking TODAY , jack wagon.

You just can't answer the question.

I did answer the question, weirdo. Don't be mad just because you don't know your history. Now you answer my question.
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"word of evil people"

lol

. What would you call a government that stones to death homosexuals, and beheads women who are accused of adultery? If that's not evil, then what is?

Cultish? The Puritans did just as much so were they evil too?

The ones that did those things certainly were.

http://humanismbyjoe...-puritan-ethic/

Are we a nation built on Christian beliefs or not? ( rhetorical question.)

"Sex researcher Aileen Goodson, Ph.D., states the Puritans who came to America emphasized biblical interpretations that considered the human body as inherently impure and depraved. She further reports they "had neither the time nor the inclination for frivolity. Their body guilt and shame became the law of the land, and this law was even more extreme in the United States than overseas."

The anti-sex attitude of the Puritans is also described by historian John Demos. He reports that throughout the seventeenth century, the Puritans in Plymouth Colony had "a steady succession of trials and convictions for sexual offenses involving single persons. 'Fornication,' in particular, was a familiar problem." Demos says the punishment for fornication was "a fine of ten pounds or a public whipping – and applied equally to both parties."

Although the Puritans had serious and even pathological hang-ups about pleasure, they were into violence. Calvin's Geneva beheaded adulterers. Religious dissenters were hanged, decapitated, or burned at the stake. Christopher Hitchens describes Calvin as "a sadist and torturer and killer, who burned Servetus (one of the great thinkers and questioners of the day) while the man was still alive."

In England, Oliver Cromwell's Bible-carrying, hymn-singing Puritan army became notorious for slaughtering Anglicans at home and Catholics in Ireland.

Puritans in Massachusetts set up a religious police state in which deviation from their religion could result in flogging, pillorying, hanging, banishment, having one's ears cut off, or having one's tongue bored through with a hot iron. Four Quakers were hanged in Boston after repeated whippings and banishments failed to drive them away. President Taft was obviously correct in commenting that the Puritans "came to this country to establish freedom of their religion, not the freedom of anybody else's religion"

The Puritans are a rather narrow sliver of Christianity, both at their zenith as well as for all of Christian history. There were a minority in their home country which is why they set sail for here. So to ask whether we are a nation founded on Christian principles based on what the Puritans did, didn't do, or thought doesn't seem to be a valid question. Even if you dismiss the two largest Christian groups in history (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox), Puritans and Calvinists are still minorities within Protestantism by a rather large margin.

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I'm going to disagree. Whether we talk about he "Puritan work ethic" or about the "city upon a hill," Puritanism helped create the foundations for America.

Winthrop preached that each member had to work separately in concert like they were an appendage of the body of Christ. The sense of community was born here. Many political, religious, and communal ideas and laws were passed along.

Gettin into this topic is very interesting but mostly irrelevant. In Thomas Jefferson's code of laws, he had a law where men had to be castrated if they committed adultery and other similar laws to what Iran has today. So was Thomas Jefferson evil too?

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So was Thomas Jefferson evil too?

Sure sounds like your making a case for it....HOW???!!

that or your making a case that the iranian government and their ways are OK....one of the two....

I'm certainly not calling Jefferson or the Iranian people evil. The exact opposite. You must be slow.Only person calling anybody evil around here is Raptor.
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