Compensation for American Embassy personnel held hostage for 444 days in Iran more than three decades ago was hailed on Thursday by the former captives and the lawyers who for years fought Tehran and Washington to get a measure of vindication.
A provision buried in a spending bill signed by President Obama last week will give up to $4.4 million to each of the 37 surviving hostages or the estates of 16 others who died in the years since their release. The sum works out to $10,000 for each day of their captivity and will come, in part, from a $9 billion penalty paid by the French bank BNP Paribas for violating sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Sudan.
You can read the rest @
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-held-in-iran-during-444-day-hostage-crisis-finally-get-compensation/2015/12/24/c1054c2e-aa4b-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html
Our prisoners of war, however, receive no such compensation. You can read about what they do receive @
http://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Home/Benefit_Library/Federal_Benefits_Page/POW__MIA_Entitlements.html
Many of our POWs were tortured, some died in captivity, and all of them suffered under conditions far worse than did the US hostages in Iran.
There is a basic unfairness here, apparently fueled by our continuing, irrational hatred of Iran.
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