Americans Held Hostage At US Embassy in Iran Win Compensation – 36 Years After They Were Seized
24th December 2015
Thirty-five years after they were seized and held in captivity for 444 days by Iranian revolutionaries, the 53 Americans – or their families – are to receive $4.4m in compensation.
Reports said that buried in the details of the huge $1.8 trillion package of spending and tax cuts passed last week, was a provision to make the payments to the former hostages, or their next of kin. Victims of state-sponsored terrorist attacks such as the 1998 American Embassy bombings in East Africa, will also be eligible for benefits under the law.
“I had to pull over to the side of the road, and I basically cried,” Rodney Sickmann, who was a Marine sergeant working as a security guard at the embassy in Tehran, told the New York Times.
Yeah, dude, your government’s got your back — see how this knife fits.