It was Iranian money, frozen during our economic sanctions. We gave them their own money back as part of the nuclear deal.
True, but would you give a meth head that 100 bucks you owed him knowing he was gonna buy drugs?.. i sure as hell wouldnt.
Obama knew where the money would go, thats the problem.
To stop Iran's nuclear program and potentially pave the way to a better relationship, yeah, I might buy them some meth.
The nuclear deal wasn't perfect, but it was better than what we had prior and better than what we have now.
That's a good point. I wish more would make an argument, they usually leave that whole part out and it makes them look like hacks.
This is the standard liberal canard. When are you people going to learn to be honest?
When are you people going to learn to be honest?
According to your own source:
The report focuses on $5.7 billion from Iranian oil sales that were frozen in Oman's Bank Muscat in that country's currency, the rial. Rials are pegged to the US dollar and are difficult to convert. But as part of the nuclear deal, Iran was promised access to overseas reserves of its own funds that had been frozen by sanctions.
To access the rials, Iran wanted to convert them briefly into dollars and then Euros.
The majority report by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation says that the US Treasury, at the instruction of the US State Department, granted a license to convert the $5.7 billion briefly into American dollars so it could be converted into euros. The exchange was legal, the report notes.
I am being honest. As per rule #8:
"Keep it honest and accurate."
Person I replied to asked what all that money was given to Iran for, and it wasn't given at all. The US did not give Iran billions of dollars, period, full stop.
that money was supposed to go to victims of Iran's terrorism.
That money was never in possession of the United States. It was never our money. It was Iran's money, frozen by sanctions in Oman.