Posted on 09/08/2016 3:28:59 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Iran may have received an additional $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments facilitated by the Obama administration between 2014 and 2016, according to testimony provided before Congress by an expert on last summer’s nuclear agreement with Iran.
Between January 2014 and July 2015, when the Obama administration was hammering out the final details of the nuclear accord, Iran was paid $700 million every month from funds that had previously been frozen by U.S. sanctions.
A total of $11.9 billion was ultimately paid to Iran, but the details surrounding these payments remain shrouded in mystery, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
In total, “Iran may have received as much as $33.6 billion in cash or in gold and other precious metals,” Dubowitz disclosed.
New questions about these payments are emerging following confirmation from top Obama administration officials on Thursday that it was forced to pay Iran $1.7 billion in cash prior to the release of several U.S. hostages earlier this year. The administration insisted that cash had to be used for this payment.
Top administration officials were adamant that the cash payments were the best way to ensure that Iran got immediate access to this money due to its ongoing difficulty accessing international funds still sanctioned by the West.
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Caveat emptor.
Thank God Speaker Ryan was there to AUTHORIZE THESE PAYMENTS
Treason. Theft.
They hang traitors, don’t they?
Here’s a link to the song Obama has going through his head all day long as he presides at the White Hut.
The bill will come due.
But US Treasury is bankrupt and $20,000,000,000,000 in debt.
Why give gift to Iran with borrowed money from China?
What are the blacks in ghettos going to say when they find out billions went to Muslims in Iran instead of to USA poor cities? (Will they ever know?) For Obama and the Democrats that support him, Black lives don’t matter as much as Muslim lives.
Trump will get to the bottom of it.
Obama just using our tax dollars to pay his blackmail.
The enemy found out what Obama and Hillary were doing in Libya.
We get to pay for it.
> due to its ongoing difficulty accessing international funds
Obama has decreased our status in the world even more that I thought if we can’t send money to another (any other) country through non-corrupt mechanisms.
I think checks (money transfers) became common in the 1200’s (1400’s?) but existed long before. And in 2016 the US cannot write a check. I wonder if the “son of a whore” (Philippine for “Obama”) is proud to take us back 800 years.
$33 billion pays for a lot of IED’s.
$400million>$1.7 billion>$33.6 billion
What’s next?
who is authorizing this?
where is this money coming from?
what’s the rush to pay off a disputed deal from 1974 now?
why no transparency?
how long before this nightmare is over?
I went John Galt on Wisconsin products years ago.
Seems I made the correct decision.
Viva Granna Padano.
Why are we giving money to Iran anyway?????
And that’s exactly where it will go. This is the era of jihad.
Impeach his black ass. He is pure crap.
OK kids, is he a Shiite or a Sunni? Or is he the Great Muslim unifier/facilitator?
We used to. Now we elect them President. Twice.
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