you may believe so, and i may believe so, but legally that wasn't an option.what part of that matters to you? why did it stick out to you?
This is what stuck out to me.
“We all believed that Iran would pay our damages, not U.S. taxpayers,” says Stephen Flatow, a New Jersey real estate lawyer who received $24 million for the death of his 19-year-old daughter in a 1995 bus bombing in the Gaza Strip. “And now, 15 years later, we find out that they never deducted the money from the account. It makes me nauseous. The Iranians aren’t paying a cent.”
The money should have been taken out of the frozen Iranian funds instead of the US taxpayer.
Then I must assume that this was just another of the Clinton lies:
"In 2000, the Clinton administration agreed to pay the $400 million to more than a dozen Americans who had won judgments against Iran in U.S. courts. At the time, American officials assured the victims that the Treasury would be reimbursed from the seized Iranian funds.