Just like the State Department insists that the $400 million payment to Iran had nothing to do with ransom for prisoners. Just another coincidence. Move on now, nothing to see here.
Starboard wrote:
U.S. military officials insist the timing of the operation has nothing to do with politics
Just like the State Department insists that the $400 million payment to Iran had nothing to do with ransom for prisoners. Just another coincidence. Move on now, nothing to see here.
Say, just for a logic exercise, that it was indeed a payment for a failed arms deal from the 1970’s. Why pay them? According to CNN:
“as the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement resolving claims at an international tribunal at The Hague over a failed arms deal under the time of the Shah. “
Uhm, I ask again, why pay them? If I WERE to pay them, I’d deduct that money from the UN, NATO, and foreign aid to each and every other country (save Israel) to offset it.
Ridiculous, and even honestly going past that to ludicrous, possibly even plaid.