Well, lets go to the factual side of this. Roughly 100 to 120 billion were funds that were in Iranian state accounts outside of Iran, in 1979. These were the frozen funds. It’s not US-controlled money in the broad sense....we marginally controlled 2-billion of that in US banks...the rest were overseas.
When this Obama deal was concluded, it basically opened up the frozen funds problem, and allowed them to have their national money back in their hand. All of this probably should have been settled in the 1980s...but never was. So to say it was US money, would be a false statement.
But here with the Obama deal...unfreezing their money, was the last part of it...Iran wanted that two billion in US hands to be brought physically back into Iran (cash).
Chief reason? There is speculation that various big members of the government wanted to exchange their Iranian currency (mostly worthless) for dollars/Euro and they’d ship it to Dubai or Qatar.
Remember, Iranian businessmen for the past decade have been shedding their currency on a monthly basis, and funneling the profits out to Dubai/Qatar...in fear of a financial collapse in Iran (which they still believe will eventually happen).
If you went to the Mullahs and asked them where the cash is today (of the pallet of dollars delivered)...they have no idea. But that cash is no longer in Iran, and it’s likely sitting outside of the country.
Mullah Obama helping his fellow sojourners.
President’s Statement
“Made available the funds”
That is a direct statement of fact. There was no rational reason to unfreeze the Iranian assets knowing full well Iran, the leading State Sponsor of Terrorism, was going to use those fund attack on our personal and our allies.
That the Obamabots are desperately trying to obfuscate facts with the utterly irreverent twaddle that “it was their money” is the despicable lie here.
Another part of this cash transfer was that US dollars were exchanged for Euros. I understand it is illegal to actually transfer US dollars in CASH to Iran.
Also, all the money was not flown to Iran. Some was flown to other banking destinations.
Prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution the Shah’s government had made a payment to the US for aircraft. The aircraft was never delivered. The funds for the aircraft had been held in bank accounts for almost 40 years. It had gained a substantial amount of interest in that time.