AMERICAN HOSTAGE LEFT TO BUY HIS OWN PLANE TICKET AFTER IRAN RELEASE: Pastor Saeed Abedini “said he and other hostages were left to fend for themselves after flying from Iran to Germany when they were released after the Obama Administration’s $400 million payment to Iran. After spending a few days in a hospital in Germany, Adedini was surprised to hear that he needed to buy his own plane ticket home. ‘We were actually all shocked because I came out; I just had prison clothes and [they] just told us you need to buy your own ticket.’”

In an article for Fox News, Abedini adds:

During the 3 and a half years of my imprisonment, there was no income for my family. When I returned to America, I was virtually homeless. My wife, my family and I were victims of unbelievable trauma. We are still suffering because of it in countless, painful ways.

Yet I was informed when our flight from Iran landed in Germany that I would have to buy my own plane ticket back to the US. They didn’t even intend on helping me get home. Without the kindness of friends like the Rev. Franklin Graham, I would have been stranded in Germany. In spite of all I had experienced, I felt completely dispensable.

How could so many people go to such great lengths, including a airplane full of $400 million in cash, and yet a plane ticket home for me was, as I was told, “not in the budget.”

Because if there’s one thing this administration is known for, it’s doling out taxpayer money with an eyedropper.