Posted on 01/09/2017 2:07:57 PM PST by ColdOne
The Obama administration has paid Iran more than $10 billion in gold, cash, and other assets since 2013, according to Iranian officials, who disclosed that the White House has been intentionally deflating the total amount paid to the Islamic Republic.
Senior Iranian officials late last week confirmed reports that the total amount of money paid to Iran over the past four years is in excess of $10 billion, a figure that runs counter to official estimates provided by the White House.
The latest disclosure by Iran, which comports with previous claims about the Obama administration obfuscating details about its cash transfers to Iranincluding a $1.7 billion cash payment included in a ransom to free Americanssheds further light on the White Houses back room dealings to bolster Irans economy and preserve the Iran nuclear agreement.
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Maybe this eagle hails from Jersey's Watchung Mtns.
You voted for this America.
Enjoy your WW3. :)
Ten billion here, 100 billion there, the taxpayer is due a grand accounting when Trump takes office.
The House wrote the check. Haul them up for TREASON along with the Terrorist in Chief.
Deduct it from odumbo’s future retirement checks and include the congress critters that allowed it to happen. Well past time for consequences of their actions (or inaction in this case).
0bola “won” in 2012 due to election fraud.
It should have been called treason when 0bola gave his first speech in Egypt saying he was a moslem.
Yes
They can use that 10 billion to replace their Navy when Trump starts blowing it out of the water come Jan.20th.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi confirmed last week a recent report in the Wall Street Journal detailing some $10 billion in cash and assets provided to Iran since 2013, when the administration was engaging in sensitive diplomacy with Tehran aimed at securing the nuclear deal.
Ghasemi disclosed that the $10 billion figure just scratches the surface of the total amount given to Iran by the United States over the past several years.
I will not speak about the precise amount, Ghasemi was quoted as saying in Persian language reports independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon.
The $10 billion figure is actually a stingy estimate, Ghasemi claimed, adding that a combination of cash, gold, and other assets was sent by Washington to Irans Central Bank and subsequently spent.
This report is true but the value was higher, Ghassemi was quoted as saying.
After the Geneva conference and the resulting agreement, it was decided that $700 million dollars were to be dispensed per month by the U.S., according to Ghassemi. In addition to the cash funds which we received, we [also] received our deliveries in gold, bullion, and other things.
Regional experts who spoke to the Free Beacon about these disclosures said that the $10 billion figure offered by the Obama administration should be viewed as a conservative estimate for what Iran was paid to stay at the table and negotiate.
Iran does have incentives to overstate this figure, Behnam Ben Taleblu, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Free Beacon. But given the recent state-sponsored narrative in Iran about a Western and particularly American failing to offer sanctions relief, this reads much more as fact rather than another instance of disinformation from Tehran.
Actually we don't know what the real number was at 700 million per month it adds up pretty quick no telling how many months they sent it either.
Actually if you were a Russian plant like Rense contends in one of his pieces years ago and you gave Iran this kind of money and then Iran helped Syria which in turn helps Russia couldn't el zero be helping Russia all along and we never saw it.
Then there the 4,000 troops.tanks choppers other vehicles that are easy targets for russian planes that we just sent to russian borders which will be sitting ducks without air support,is that not helping the ruskies?
It is not the Iran regime’s money, assets or gold. The regime that kidnapped more than 400 Americans, murdered countless more, overthrew Iran’s government is NOT ENTITLED to those assets.
Get it?
They don’t own it anymore than criminals own a home they broke into after murdering the family inside.
You are falsely equating IRAN with the a-hole criminals that are murdering their way to rule the others. Just ask any Iranian in private whether they want the criminal a-holes to remain power and they will tell you no.
Iran was once a great country with a large middle class, good roads, highways, schools, and hospitals. Today it is an Islamic hell and no one likes it nor dare speak up against it. Young people can have their limbs cut off for kissing on a public bench. No one gets a job unless they have sufficiently kissed some a-hole mullah’s ass. There is a horrible housing shortage and there is a large age group that have no skills or education.
The Iran regime was rewarded for their crimes by Obama/Kerry. The Iranian people will never see a penny of what Obama/Kerry released to their murderers and captors.
“the Iran regime was rewarded for their crimes by Obama/Kerry”
All the actions take by Pres. Obama point to one obvious conclusion....
When a community organizing Marxist Subversive ENEMY of the State is elected to the highest office in the land he doesn’t suddenly become a patriot....
Traitorous POS needs to be rotting away in Gitmo.
Can we please have a Ft. Knox audit now?
How much US investment was negated with the Islamic republic overthrow of a democratic government? I think you suck big camel cocks and need to go somewhere else.
How many days were those hostages held. Did Iran pay back those military assets they liberated? Again go find a camel!
you need to go!!!!!!
It's NOT missing. Hussein gave it to support Muslim terrorism.
Hussein needs to go to GITMO as he waits for his trial for treason.
True if the stated things did happen. Luckily next month Obama can be made to testify under oath since the only thing he will be running will be his mouth.
I agree but saying Iran got back their own money - WTF? Crazy.
He paid jiziya like a good dhimme. Why should they not respect him?
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