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To: ScaniaBoy

Drudge headline $400M, ‘in euros, Swiss francs, and other vurrencies’


2 posted on 08/03/2016 12:00:59 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: BigEdLB

$1.7 Billion is a lot of physical cash. I saw the same number you did of $400 million.


4 posted on 08/03/2016 12:03:49 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: BigEdLB
Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said. Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.

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 Iran’s 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. 17—without 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. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.

6 posted on 08/03/2016 12:05:01 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: BigEdLB; Liz; bevperl; ZULU; rodguy911; NFHale; vette6387; sheik yerbouty; Nachum; MinuteGal

Millions of pissed off taxpayers need to go to DC to ask Congress WTF is going on, ya think?


40 posted on 08/03/2016 6:33:57 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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