The $1.6 billion in currency given Iran was U.S. taxpayers’ money.
There is an argument about the $150 billion, which was impounded Iranian money, but NOT about the pallets of currency.
I think that’s why President Trump usually talks more about the physical currency.
Which no doubt wound up, in part, in Obama’s and Kerry’s pockets. Kerry is scrambling now. Maybe he is begging them to let him PAY BACK THE BRIBE rather than be outed for the slimy criminal traitor he is.
Iran probably wants the money back WITH INTEREST. I can see that being the discussion Kerry was caught having yesterday in Paris, with the 5 Iranian officials and their retinues of bodyguards.
Could you tell more about $150 billion being Iranian money? I don’t remember reading that at all (which means nothing!). I read that the $1.6 (or 7) billion was because of $400 million Iranian money which was confiscated when the Iranian revolution occurred; that $400 mil was in the US as payment for something other other (weaponry?) and was kept. And it sort of turned into $1.6/7 billion.
Where did the $150 billion come from?
Iran probably wants the money back WITH INTEREST...
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My recollection is that the 1.6B INCLUDES the interest on the embargoed US assets. Since 1974. That’s some heavy compounding.