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HERE’S THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION FROM FORTUNE:

What’s Behind the Financial Dispute Between the U.S. and Iran?

In November 1979, Iran’s revolutionary government took 52 Americans hostages at the U.S. embassy, and the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Tehran. In retaliation, Washington froze $12 billion in Iranian assets held on our shores.

I also had a caveat that while it had been debunked, that was not necessarily a for sure thing these days. These Video bloggers really should at least search the court records or something.

Given the numerous articles such as this one, explaining the council and interaction, it is JMHO, that the story about Obama paying restitution is more likely than not to be false. Don’t give up hope though, if any of that cash found it’s way to purchase and Island compound, we may yet be able to seize it under asset forfeiture laws.
The hostage crisis was resolved in 1981 at a conference in Algiers, and the U.S. returned $3 billion to Iran, with more funds going either to pay creditors, or into escrow.

The two nations also established a tribunal in the Hague called the Iran United States Claims Tribunal to settle claims both leveled by each government against the other, U.S. citizens versus Iran, and vice versa.

The major issue between the two governments was a $400 million payment for military equipment made by the government of the Shah of Iran, prior to the 1979 uprising that topped him.

The U.S. banned delivery of the jets and other weapons amid the hostage crisis, but froze the $400 million advance payment.

“The Pentagon handled arms purchases from foreign countries,” says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council official who served as the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis.

“Defense took care of the details. So the $400 million scheduled purchase was a government-to-government transaction. The U.S. government was holding the money. That’s why it was so difficult to resolve.”

By 2015, the issue stood before a panel of nine judges, including three independent jurists, who were reportedly near a decision on binding arbitration. According to Obama administration officials, the U.S. was concerned that the tribunal would mandate an award in the multiple billions of dollars. “The Iranians wanted $10 billion,” says Sick.”I estimate that the tribunal would have awarded them $4 billion. That’s what the lawyers were saying. It’s not as much as they wanted, but a lot more than we paid.”

So instead, the U.S. negotiators convinced Iran to move the dispute from arbitration to a private settlement. The two sides reached an agreement in mid-2015, at the same time as the U.S. and Iran reached a comprehensive pact on curtailing Iran’s development of nuclear weapons.

The financial deal called for the U.S. to refund $1.7 billion to Tehran, consisting of the original $400 million contract for military equipment, plus $1.3 billion in interest.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/05/money-america-iran/

I will just note for the record that the Carter CIA participated in bringing down the Shah due to a dispute over the oil leases. Carter thought a religious man would be better to deal with. That’s per some reading that I did way back then. I’m sure the lefties had their own version too.