Imagine that. Obama gave Iran an extra $400 million (on top of the money he gave them in the Iran nuke deal) to get the four American hostages freed. Basically, Obama and the Democrats gave the top state sponsor of terrorism $400 million tax payer dollars. Basically, what Obama did with the secret $400M payment to Iran constitutes treason. But since Obama is loved so much by the corrupt Democrat media complex, it wouldn’t even get a sniff.
| Obama paid Iran $400 million ransom for release of American hostages |
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The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.
Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.
The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The settlement, which resolved claims before an international tribunal in The Hague, also coincided with the formal implementation that same weekend of the landmark nuclear agreement reached between Tehran, the U.S. and other global powers the summer before.
Of course the media isn’t interested in this ransom quid-pro-quo. Instead, they are talking about Donald Trump and a crying baby or something.