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Obama administration transfers $2 billion, artifacts back to Iran
American Thinker ^ | 03/24/2016 | Rick Moran

Posted on 03/24/2016 6:51:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

I suggest you not read this story until your breakfast is fully digested.

The Obama administration has been secretly returning artifacts in the possession of the US back to Iran as part of a general "detente" with the terrorist regime. They also transferred $2 billion in taxpayer money to Tehran as part of a settlement dealing with Iran's claims. The information is contained in a letter from a State Department official obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Absolutely no word on any US claims regarding the appropriation of US property, including our embassy nor damages paid to American hostages for being held more than a year as prisoners.

Obama administration officials engaged in secret talks with Iran between June 2014 through at least January 2015 over a series of legal claims leveled against the United States by the Islamic Republic, the State Department disclosed in its letter.

“These discussions led to the settlement of claims for architectural drawings, which are now in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and for fossils, which are now in the possession of Iran’s Ministry of the Environment, and the parties also discussed the possibility of broader settlements,” the State Department wrote, in response to an inquiry launched in January by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.).

The Obama administration is seeking further settlements with Tehran to transfer assets, according to the State Department.

The administration’s latest admission about the backroom dealings with Iran were offered in response to a broader inquiry launched by Pompeo, who is seeking further information about the Obama administration’s payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, which many viewed as a “ransom payment” for Iran’s release of several U.S. hostages in January.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; irandetente; obama; obamairan

1 posted on 03/24/2016 6:51:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Effing Muslim.


2 posted on 03/24/2016 6:53:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind
Looks more and more like he really wants t piss people off and be very arrogant while doing it.
3 posted on 03/24/2016 6:53:55 AM PDT by capt. norm (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat!)
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To: SeekAndFind
And yet the US gets essentially nothing in return for all this goodwill and generosity.


4 posted on 03/24/2016 6:54:39 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: SeekAndFind

and the congress criters are just allowing this to happen? I thought they hold the purse strings. Are they just giving Obama carte blanche?


5 posted on 03/24/2016 6:57:06 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: SeekAndFind
Did the word TREASON lose its meaning?

They chant 'Death to America' and Obama thinks they have a resonable argument.

6 posted on 03/24/2016 6:58:47 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like Israel will be facing another 2 billion in gun and ammo being used against it over the next year.


7 posted on 03/24/2016 7:00:57 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: capt. norm

yup. it’s an in-your-face move.

God warned us that “kings” will be this way.

repudiation will be sweet.


8 posted on 03/24/2016 7:02:01 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: circlecity

may the good Lord cause Iran to divide against itself and waste it all that way


9 posted on 03/24/2016 7:02:44 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Blue Highway

Don’t vote for any incumbent....


10 posted on 03/24/2016 7:03:59 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: TexasCajun

yeah, nothing about demanding that this stop.


11 posted on 03/24/2016 7:04:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Demonstrating his “flexibility” by bending over backwards to kiss muzzie ass


12 posted on 03/24/2016 7:04:26 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: All

We can’t get rid of this POS fast enough....


13 posted on 03/24/2016 7:04:51 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: Little Pig

fossils and architectural drawings.

how about stone buddhas?


14 posted on 03/24/2016 7:05:24 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: bigbob

if not to receive something even more unspeakable


15 posted on 03/24/2016 7:05:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Blue Highway
"and the congress criters are just allowing this to happen?"

That's the GOPe....always glad to bend to liberal demands....I'll be glad when they're gone

After Trump is elected, I hope they'll keep their word and LEAVE!


16 posted on 03/24/2016 7:06:45 AM PDT by capt. norm (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Surrender no matter what ,show weakness and people will leave you alone ,Obama has this tattooed on his Butt


17 posted on 03/24/2016 7:18:57 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

Bendover Barry
What do you expect from the limp wristed bathhouse towel boy...


18 posted on 03/24/2016 7:40:15 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: JBW1949

There’s 9mos to go until 0bummer leaves, and the damage yet to come will be even worse than you or I can imagine. It will be with us for generations.


19 posted on 03/24/2016 7:46:51 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

More of Obama’s true colors.


20 posted on 03/24/2016 8:25:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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