Even if we’re saying that Iran was isolated from the international banking system and all that, with the lifting of such sanctions, wouldn’t they be reconnected?
And upon reconnection, wouldn’t we then simply wire the money to them? Was there really a need to dig up all the cash in foreign currencies to pay them in that manner?
Who accounted for the cash at both ends? And do we know that the people in Iran deposited the money into the proper bank accounts, and that none of the presumeably untraceable cash was skimmed off by someone?
No, we have no more control over foreign cash flown into Iran, than we do new electrical power equipment we fly into Puerto Rico.
BFL