$400 million payment to Iran–their money–negotiated separately from hostages
The only link was that the U.S. wasn’t going to pay them until Americans were out of Iran and safe.
Click here for reuse options!The State Department says a $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on the release of American prisoners.
Spokesman John Kirby says negotiations over the United States’ returning Iranian money from a decades-old account was conducted separately from the prisoner talks. But he says the U.S. withheld delivery of the cash as leverage until the U.S. citizens had left Iran.
Kirby spoke after The Wall Street Journal reported that the departures of the crisscrossing planes were linked…
Both the cash payment and the release of the prisoners occurred Jan. 17. Senior U.S. officials have claimed the timing was coincidental: President Obama had planned to pay Tehran nearly $2 billion to settle an outstanding legal dispute from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution…
The [New York] Times points out that the money never belonged to the U.S. — it has always been Iran’s — and the U.S. would likely have had to pay the $400 million plus 35 years’ worth of interest if the international tribunal at the Hague ruled on the issue. The entire amount agreed upon was $1.7 billion — the $400 million was the first installment. Instead, the payment was resolved in tandem with the nuclear negotiations.
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9 responses to $400 million payment to Iran–their money–negotiated separately from hostages
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Larry Schmitt August 18th, 2016 at 18:54
Never mind the facts, this was a ransom, I tells ya!
StoneyCurtisll August 18th, 2016 at 19:00
Try telling Obama haters it wasn’t a ‘ransom payment”..
For that matter, try telling them Obama wasn’t born in Kenya..
Or The President is not a secret Muslim…(shall I go on?)
arc99 August 18th, 2016 at 19:05
don’t forget the Michelle Obama “whitey tape” which will be released any day now.
at least that is what they said in 2008.
Mike August 18th, 2016 at 19:36
Isn’t she a man in drag…???
TiredOldGuy August 18th, 2016 at 19:09
Only if you want to spend the rest of your night making that list.
StoneyCurtisll August 18th, 2016 at 19:33
I think I’ll pass…:)
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker August 18th, 2016 at 19:37
All they’ve got is lies, rage, hate and deception.
The President announced the repatriation of this money in January and……
Oh, never mind because wingnuts don’t process facts or reality.
Obewon August 18th, 2016 at 20:45
Exactly! As I was just having my haircut at a small shop in NJ. (She’s Islamic & a Trump fan!) I reminded her about Islamophobia and how shocked she was at his derisiveness. We both spoke to a guy there about DT’s 13% statistical probability. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/ Mentioning Trump’s 4% Truth rating verses Trump’s 3/4 Pants on Fire or lie.
Stylist: “Everybody lies. They all lie.” I then said Dems have 1/2 to 2/3 truth rating verses Trump’s 3/4 pants on fire and lie. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
Next a guy sits down and interjects ‘”BENGHAZI!!!” I’m sorry I was mean, but I exclaimed ‘I don’t like the misinformed’, turned back to the guy I was speaking with and said ‘he doesn’t seem to know anything accurate, or that the compound was retaken within 1 hour and 15 minutes saving 30 lives.’ Then the ignored guy yells “$20 T National Debt!” I said to the moderate. “The Public Debt is $14 T.” Gotta go. Can I go? Bye…
“Debt Held by the Public 08/17/2016 $14,026,423,968,194.02” http://treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current
robert August 19th, 2016 at 00:11
What ever happened to ” nobody left behind” as if these lives are not worth 4 million bucks.