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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at this point the whole Obama administration should be arrested....this is theft unless approved by congress. I think it is treason.
“It’s not blackmail when the cash is sent without compensation or return. It’s a gift.”
Yes, that statement is true, and Obama may just be doing that, but frequently when people (or potentially a nation) are being blackmailed, the basis/truth of the blackmail is not revealed. Such is the nature of blackmail.
I wonder how much actually went to Obama and Soros in foreign accounts.
Has anyone checked Ft. Knox recently? Talk about giving away the farm!
I think he’s been stashing and dashing with the taxpayers money from the beginning. We’ll no doubt never know how much he has stolen from us.
That gold probably came from the Ghadaffi stash that 0dunga/Hillary looted from Libya.
Dems robbed the Zika fund.
At this rate, this country will be BANKRUPT by the time the imposter leaves the white house in January. I wish we could impeach him, which would be a solution.
Untraceable cash to terrorists. Can’t get much better than that.
If Trump wins, the waking up will start January 20, 2016.
If Hillary cheats her way into the Oval Office, the nightmare will never be over it will just get worse.
Boom.
I went John Galt on Wisconsin products years ago.
Seems I made the correct decision.
Viva Granna Padano.
Explain to me what that means, and what your beef is with Wisconsin? If it’s Paul Ryan, never mind...otherwise, I’d like to know.
Cash as in paper money?
Has our government gone insane?
“Why give gift to Iran with borrowed money from China?”
$33 billion is enough for a war.
Maybe they were paying Iran to conduct combat ops in Iraq or Syria, or maybe to refrain from it in Yemen, on behalf of the Saudis.
Whatever the deal was, I bet that the Clintons took a piece.
Haven’t sitting presidents been there before for illegal behavior?
Lincoln
Wilson
Ford
Reagan
Clinton
...just off the top of my head.
We need to re-define who "they" are
Now you know what Obama does with all the tax dollars , he sends it to his friends
Gold too?
Our enemies here in gov are funding the islamists
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