Anonymous ID: 4764c4 May 24, 2026, 8:22 a.m. No.24640541   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>24640472

The people who's donor offices got raided in Cleveland (Hello) and Miami and on that same day, the port of Beirut went to Kingdom Come with an earth shattering kaboom

Anonymous ID: 4764c4 May 24, 2026, 9:04 a.m. No.24640639   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0647

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The Obama administration acknowledged late Tuesday that its transfer of $1.7 billion to Iran earlier this year was made entirely in cash, using non-U.S. currency, as Republican critics of the transaction continued to denounce the payments.

 

Treasury Department spokeswoman Dawn Selak said in a statement the cash payments were necessary because of the โ€œeffectiveness of U.S. and international sanctions,โ€ which isolated Iran from the international finance system.

 

The $1.7 billion was the settlement of a decades-old arbitration claim between the U.S. and Iran. An initial $400 million of euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currency was delivered on pallets Jan. 17, the same day Tehran agreed to release four American prisoners.

 

The Obama administration had claimed the events were separate, but recently acknowledged the cash was used as leverage until the Americans were allowed to leave Iran. The remaining $1.3 billion represented estimated interest on the Iranian cash the U.S. had held since the 1970s. The administration had previously declined to say if the interest was delivered to Iran in physical cash, as with the principal, or via a more regular banking mechanism.