https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/blog/5-times-obama-admin-insisted-cash-way-pay-iran/
5 Times the Obama Admin Insisted Cash Was the Only Way to Pay Iran
09.19.16
As details of the administration’s $1.7 billion cash payment to Iran began to leak last month, the administration argued – from President Obama on down – that there was simply no other way to pay Iran. “We couldn’t send them a check and we could not wire the money,” the president said on August 4.
That was flat-out false: “A Treasury Department spokesman acknowledged on Saturday that on at least two occasions, the U.S. did make payments to the Iranian government via wire transfer,” Politico reports. “In July 2015, the same month in which the U.S., Iran and other countries announced a landmark nuclear agreement, the U.S. government paid the Islamic [R]epublic approximately $848,000. That payment settled a claim over architectural drawings and fossils that are now housed in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and Iran’s Ministry of Environment, respectively. Then, in April 2016, the U.S. wired Iran approximately $9 million to remove 32 metric tons of its heavy water, which is used to produce plutonium and can aid in the making of nuclear weapons.”
But that didn’t stop the administration – on at least five occasions – from claiming otherwise:
“Now, as it relates to the details, the fact of the matter is the United States does not have a banking relationship with Iran. And the reason for that is that the administration — the Obama administration — has kept in place tough financial sanctions against Iran because of a variety of concerns that we have about their behavior, including their support for terrorism, their violation of human rights, and a ballistic missile program that they maintain that continues to be inconsistent with U.N. Security Council…resolutions.” (White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 8/3/16)
“Iran was at that time, and frankly still is to some degree, relatively disconnected from the international financial system. And so that raised certain challenges in getting them their money. It couldn’t be done over wire transfers… So, bearing in mind that, we had to figure out ways to get them the money. We don’t have — we’ve never re-established a direct banking relationship with Iran and still, frankly, don’t intend to do so.” (State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner, 8/3/16) ..
https://www.newsweek.com/us-give-iran-150-billion-barack-obama-jack-posobiec-1835083
"Kirk, founder of conservative student group Turning Point USA, was likely referring to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which granted Iran access to frozen assets.
This was not funding given to Iran. The amount quoted refers to foreign assets that belonged to Iran and were frozen by sanctions imposed to impede its nuclear program. The JCPOA was also an international agreement between Iran and a number of major world powers, including the U.S.
How much these assets were worth has not been released, but $150 billion is the highest estimate provided by U.S. officials."
https://www.newsweek.com/us-give-iran-150-billion-barack-obama-jack-posobiec-1835083
"In 2015, the former governor of Iran's central bank, Valiollah Seif, said in a state television address that the value of the frozen assets had been exaggerated.
Seif was sentenced in 2021 to 10 years in prison on corruption charges, reported Reuters.
The former official said that there were $29 billion of unlockable assets: $23 billion in foreign exchange that belonged to the bank and $6 billion of the Tehran government's money, The Times of Israel and Arabic news channel Al Arabiya reported in July 2015. The $29 billion Seif quoted was also reported by The New York Times.
Voice of America reported in January 2016, after the deal was signed, quotes from Seif saying Iran had gained access to $32 billion in assets.
Then U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Congress in July 2015 that Iran gained access to $56 billion via the agreement, a fact check by PolitiFact in 2018 noted.
In an August 2015 written testimony, Adam J. Szubin, then-acting Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said that while estimates suggested the Central Bank of Iran had foreign exchange assets between $100 billion to $125 billion, the usable "liquid assets" after sanctions were lifted would be around $50 billion.
"The other $50-70 billion of total CBI foreign exchange assets are either obligated in illiquid projects (such as over 50 projects with China) that cannot be monetized quickly, if at all, or are composed of outstanding loans to Iranian entities that cannot repay them," Szubin said.
"These assets would not become accessible following sanctions relief."
In any case, the amount was not American taxpayer money, as perhaps implied by the phrase, "Now we give Iran $150 billion," though it is not entirely clear what "give" may mean in this context.
Whatever the truth of the figure, the deal, which committed Iran to cut back on its nuclear enrichment and development programs, did not only involve the United States. China, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the wider European Union bloc all also agreed to lift sanctions on Iran.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement in May 2018. Following the death of General Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian military commander, in a U.S. drone strike in January 2020 that was authorized by Trump, Iran said that it would no longer abide by the terms of the agreement."
"After Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, a number of Republicans also shared via social media posts that the Biden administration had recently paid $6 billion to Iran.
The U.S. had agreed to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian oil funds held in a South Korean bank, as well as return five Iranian prisoners who have faced charges in the U.S. in exchange for five Americans."
Published Sep 12, 2023
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-biden-iran-6billion-us-hostages-1826278
Donald Trump has joined the list of Republican figures who criticized the Biden administration for releasing $6 billion in frozen Iranian money in exchange for the release of five American detainees.
The deal, which was announced in August, will see a blanket sanctions waiver for international banks to allow the money from past Iranian oil sales be allowed to move from countries such as South Korea and Qatar so the American citizens currently held captive in Iran can be released, with the U.S. releasing five Iranian prisoners as part of the deal. ..
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In an embarrassing rebuke to FBI Director Chris Wray’s sworn testimony to Congress, his own agency has reportedly issued a statement saying that he was wrong.
In testifying before the House Judiciary Committee this week, Wray told members of Congress that it wasn’t necessarily a bullet that hit former president Donald Trump in the head during his July 13 rally in Pennsylvania.
This echoed a conspiracy theory that was widely circulated, without evidence, by Trump’s enemies shortly after the shooting. They claimed Trump was hit by glass from a shattered teleprompter, or that Trump staged a fake shooting to boost his popularity.
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