Iran releases five Americans to house arrest after Joe Biden pays them $6 billion.

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The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. I talk about them every single show. Why haven't you gotten a VPN yet? Get ExpressVPN right now at ExpressVPN.com. So, Joe Biden has found a new group of people to bribe. So this is now, I guess, how we do business. If you have a WNBA player who is not really famous because, you know, she's a WNBA player who goes to Russia and

brings with her drugs. And then she gets arrested and she is stuck in jail. Yes, unjustly,

we're like, what could we trade to get her back? And the answer is the merchant of death,

which again, bad trade. Like White Sox GM level trading right there, like merchant to death for Britney

Griner. Well, now we have a similar type of trade. Iran, apparently, has released from prison

five Americans, but has placed them under house arrest and actually being fully released. They're not

being sent back to the United States. They're just under house arrest in Tehran, which sounds

like a real party, is like being stuck in a house in Tehran.

What exactly do we have to do to get them out of jail and into house arrest, which again is like its own sort of prison in Tehran?

All we had to do is give them access to $6 billion in oil revenue for quote-unquote humanitarian purposes.

By humanitarian purposes, Iran means, you know, terrorism and nuclear

development. A statement from the National Security Council spokesperson Adrian Watson says,

quote, we have received confirmation that Iran has released from prison five Americans who were

unjustly detained and has placed them on house arrest. While this is an encouraging step,

these U.S. citizens, Siamak and Mazi, Murad Tabaz, Emmat Shargi, and two Americans who at this time wish to remain private should never have been detained in the first place. We will continue to monitor their condition as closely as possible. Of course, we will not rest until they are all back home in the United States. Until that time, negotiations for their eventual release remain ongoing and are delicate. We will therefore have little in the way of details to provide about the state of their house arrest or about our efforts to secure their freedom. So just to do the math for you, for those who aren't that good math, that is $1.2 billion per hostage. So you think maybe Iran is going to think about taking some hostages in the future? How about Russia? Like so far, the trading strategy here appears to be like

Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox level of trading strategy here.

And this is egregious. It's egregious. Iran is a terror state. We just gave them $6 billion.

Now, to be fair, at least it wasn't, you know, $150 billion on the upper end

or $50 billion on the lower end of cash in pallets sent to Iran when Barack Obama was president,

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