How much was that Drone Obama gave to Iran cost?
Sorry John not believing your B.S. that it was hijacked lie.
What court was this that had so much power, does anyone know?
The point Kerry is making is that we froze Iranian assets in 1979.
Those assets continued to accrue interest or grow in value as the years went by.
A court ordered us to give the frozen assets back at their current value.
We gave Iran back their own money. Not taxpayer money.
Now, I think we can all agree that Iran did not distribute any of that money back to their original owners and that the portion given in cash disappeared pretty quickly.
I am not defending Kerry or saying that any of this was good idea. I am merely clarifying that the US did not pay taxpayer money to Iran for any of this—other than the cost of delivering the cash to them on pallets.
It is important to use facts and not get emotional. The Liberals use emotion and not facts.
Iran Gets an Unlikely Visitor, an American Plane, but No One Seems to Know Why
4/19/2014, 5:07:05 AM · by opentalk · 20 replies
NY Times ^ | April 17, 2014 | MICHAEL CORKERY, JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and THOMAS ERDBRINK
President Obama has warned that Iran is not open for business, even as the United States has loosened some of its punishing economic sanctions as part of an interim nuclear pact.Yet on Tuesday morning, Iran had an unlikely visitor: a plane, owned by the Bank of Utah, a community bank in Ogden that has 13 branches throughout the state. Bearing a small American flag on its tail, the aircraft was parked in a highly visible section of Mehrabad Airport in Tehran But from there, the story surrounding the plane, and why it was in Iran — where all but a...
What the hell is this American plane owned by the Bank of Utah doing in IRAN?
4/18/2014, 1:10:47 PM · by mandaladon · 29 replies
The Daily Caller ^ | 18 Apr 2014 | Eric Owens
On Tuesday morning, a plane owned in trust by the Bank of Utah showed up in a very visible area of the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran. What was it doing there exactly? Nobody knows, reports The New York Times. Under President Barack Obama, the United States has eased some of the long-standing punitive economic sanctions against Iran. Still, very little American — or European — economic activity is allowed inside the religious theocracy. The Bank of Utah is certainly no Wells Fargo. The Ogden-based community bank has all of 13 branches including...
Did Lurch get pinged over this? That and his underhanded, traitorous communications with Iran during the Trump presidency in which he’s not part of. The Founders would have dealt harshly with a traitor like him.
How much was the payoff, Winter Soldier?
President’s Statement
“Made available the funds”
That is a direct statement of fact. There was no rational reason to unfreeze the Iranian assets knowing full well Iran, the leading State Sponsor of Terrorism, was going to use those fund attack on our personal and our allies.
That the Obamabots are desperately trying to obfuscate facts with the utterly irreverent twaddle that “it was their money” is the despicable lie here.
His argument is the same old, tired argument that the money belonged to the Iranians. It did not. The Obama’s used a court case that agree with their position while pending litigation was still in progress (the lawsuits against them from the relatives murdered by them). I look forward to the day that old horse face is held accountable for his illegal acts...
Probably gave them $100 billion and skimmed the other $50 billion to divide amongst themselves, as we are seeing with Ukraine.
Otherwise why do pallets of cash in the middle of the night?
It was 149 billion. 9 hundred and 99 million......and 99 cents.
No, the outright lie, John, was that you were a war hero.
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Mohammad Javad Zarif was Kerry’s counterpart in the Iran nuclear deal / also his daughter’s (Vanessa) father-in-law.
we gave them back the money we held for them, plus a lot interest ..
F U B O
Hey, I can hope!!!
He’s parsing words again.
Usually “court judgments” are negotiated down to some small fraction of the award. So, Kerry’s really the liar here. He knows this.
Him and Obama GAVE this money to terrorists knowingly instead of using it as leverage. It’s as simple as that. The Ayatollah’s most likely would have settled for 5 billion.
It’s fake news to even bring this up now. We all knew that back when.