The Obama administration shipped $400 million in cash to the Iranian government on the same day last January that the ayatollahs released four American hostages.

Ask anyone to describe such a cash-for-hostages deal and they’d call the money a ransom payment. President Obama and his officials have been denying it all week, but if it walks like a ransom payment and quacks like a ransom payment, it’s a ransom payment.

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