dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

And here's how the $1.7B fits in:

1) Iran (specifically the Shah of Iran) purchased military equipment from the US prior to the 1979 uprising that toppled him. Iran made an up-front payment of $400 million.

2) Because of the hostage crisis, the US government banned delivery of the jets and other weapons and froze the $400M advanced payment.

3) In 2015, this was taken to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal atThe Hague (Tribunal established as part of the Algiers Accords in 1981). Agreement to arbitrate resulted returning the $400M plus $1.3B in "interest" (The two sides reached an agreement in mid-2015, at the same time as the U.S. and Iran reached a comprehensive pact on curtailing Iran’s development of nuclear weapons - my guess is that Iran said, if you dont pay us this money we will tell everyone that you sold us nuclear plans)

4)"Tehran released the U.S. hostages, and the U.S. freed seven Iranians detained for violating financial and other U.S. sanctions on their home country. …

But Obama didn’t mention that the same day, $400 million was being shipped over 6000 miles for deposit in Iran’s treasury. “Normally you’d use a bank transfer,”… “But Congress banned dollar transfers to Iran, so the government had to find another way. So they bought foreign currency, and transferred it in cash.”"

5) August 2016 President Barack Obama approved the $400 million transfer, which he had announced in January as part of the Iran nuclear deal. The money was flown into Iran on wooden pallets stacked with Swiss francs, euros and other currencies as the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement

6) US officials said cash had to be flown in because existing US sanctions ban American dollars from being used in a transaction with Iran and because Iran could not access the global financial system due to international sanctions it was under at the time.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest … described the payment as a "conscious strategic decision that was made on the part of the Obama administration as we were implementing the deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon to resolve other longstanding concerns we had with Iran."

Obtaining a nuclear weapon which we gave them to begin with.

http://fortune.com/2016/08/05/money-america-iran/

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/03.17.16-DOS-Response-Concerns-re-1.7-Billion-Payout-to-Iran.pdf

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash/index.html