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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I think he will take all of these crooked shenanigans personally, and go after whatever individual or enterprise necessary, in order to insure justice is served.
I could have told you that in January 2009. I grew up surrounded by Muslims, had many childhood Muslim friends and all the way through college. I have seen first hand, up and close the psyche of of Muslims and Islam. They aspire world domination, if given a chance.
this $33.6 billion carve out got a couple minutes of screen time on fox this am.
absolutely no traction anywhere else.
add the $6 billion missing from state dept.
$40 billion PO’d and not a squeak outta congress??
bizarre.
bizarre.
The dogs that did not bark.
Looks like they got their cut.
Looks like they got their cut.
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yup.
$40 billion is plenty to spread around.
if they’re in DC, they’re in on the graft.
Gold too?
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quick somebody check to see if anything is left in the vault in ft knox.
still nothing on the news on this $33.6 billion rip off.
suppose this is twitter bait trying to set trump up for a late nite tweet?
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