Drudge headline $400M, ‘in euros, Swiss francs, and other vurrencies’
$1.7 Billion is a lot of physical cash. I saw the same number you did of $400 million.
The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Irans last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The settlement, which resolved claims before an international tribunal in The Hague, also coincided with the formal implementation that same weekend of the landmark nuclear agreement reached between Tehran, the U.S. and other global powers the summer before.
With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well, President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17without disclosing the $400 million cash payment. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well, President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.
Millions of pissed off taxpayers need to go to DC to ask Congress WTF is going on, ya think?