Call it what you will but cash payment to Iran is a Felony

[Desperado]

We can all agree that Obama paid Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,
Not matter what you call it sending Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,is illegal

Treasury’s guidance cites to what’s known as the ITSR (Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations), the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that implements anti-terrorism sanctions initiated by President Clinton under federal law. The specific provision cited is Section 560.204, which states: The exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, technology, or services to Iran or the Government of Iran is prohibited. [Emphasis added.] The regulation goes on to stress that this prohibition may not be circumvented by exporting things of value “to a person in a third country” when one has “knowledge or reason to know that” such things are “intended specifically for supply, transshipment, or reexportation, directly or indirectly, to Iran or the Government of Iran.”

Read more at: Iran Ransom Payment: President Obama Broke the Law by Sending Cash to Iran | National Review

 

[AmericanFirst1]

The liar in chief said it wasn't a ransom, we can believe him because after all he said"if you like your insurance you can keep it".

 

[aris2chat]

Iran had accounts that were frozen in the US that have now been released. Why was the money the Shaw payed not deposited in those same accounts?

Cash in the middle of the night on a private plane in Swiss Francs............ excuse was pure BS

 

[Vigilante]

A bunch of leftist idiots in here believe this....

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

In related news: Reagan is a Iran-Contra felon.

 

[leftwinger]

They found a loophole? Dont pay in $USD?

 

[waltky]

So if a priest did it...

... would he be a felonious monk?

 

[waltky]

Dat'll pay fer a lotta jihadis, thanks Obama...

Analyst: Iran Could Spend More Than $1 Billion of $1.7 Billion Windfall on Terror
September 16, 2016 – The Iranian regime could direct more than $1 billion of the $1.7 billion it received from the Obama administration early this year towards sponsoring terrorism, a defense policy analyst said Thursday.

Rachel Hoff, director of defense analysis at the center-right American Action Forum, based the assertion on the fact – reported several weeks ago – that Iran has earmarked the $1.7 billion to its military budget; and to her own earlier research findings that some 65 percent of its defense budget is channeled to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). “It is unlikely that Iran accurately reports its military or paramilitary spending, but the reported budget figures are useful as a minimum baseline,” Hoff wrote. “Applying the official spending levels to the U.S. payment to Iran, the $1.7 billion could mean $1.1 billion for the IRGC.” The IRGC’s role in supporting terror plots and terrorist proxies around the world, particularly through its foreign operations arm, the Qods Force, is well-documented. The State Department says Iran remains the world’s “foremost state sponsor of terrorism.”

Iran last January and February received $1.7 billion, in cash, from the U.S. government in settlement of a claim for funds paid before the 1979 Iranian revolution for undelivered military equipment. $400 million was frozen Iranian funds, while the other $1.3 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money was negotiated interest, accrued over three-and-a-half decades. (The funds were frozen after the revolution when regime-backed students seized the U.S. Embassy and took as hostage 52 Americans who were held for 444 days.)

Late last month, Iran’s Guardian Council ratified the country’s 2016-17 budget which, according to Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Saeed Ghasseminejad, incorporated a legislative stipulation that the $1.7 billion from legal settlements go to the military budget. “There is no longer any doubt that the money the United States has paid to Iran will go to the Islamic Republic’s armed forces,” Ghasseminejad wrote in a Sept. 1 policy brief. “It remains unclear how the military will spend it – potentially to prop up the Syrian regime, Hezbollah, Shi’ite militias in Iraq, or Houthi rebels in Yemen, or to buy heavy weaponry from Russia in contravention of the U.N. arms embargo.”

The first U.S. payment, $400 million, was flown in to Tehran on the same day as the regime freed four imprisoned Americans. The administration rejected – and continues to reject – critics’ accusations that it amounted to a “ransom,” although later conceded that it had been used as “leverage” to ensure the Americans’ release that day.

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[aris2chat]

Dat'll pay fer a lotta jihadis, thanks Obama...

Analyst: Iran Could Spend More Than $1 Billion of $1.7 Billion Windfall on Terror
September 16, 2016 – The Iranian regime could direct more than $1 billion of the $1.7 billion it received from the Obama administration early this year towards sponsoring terrorism, a defense policy analyst said Thursday.

Rachel Hoff, director of defense analysis at the center-right American Action Forum, based the assertion on the fact – reported several weeks ago – that Iran has earmarked the $1.7 billion to its military budget; and to her own earlier research findings that some 65 percent of its defense budget is channeled to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). “It is unlikely that Iran accurately reports its military or paramilitary spending, but the reported budget figures are useful as a minimum baseline,” Hoff wrote. “Applying the official spending levels to the U.S. payment to Iran, the $1.7 billion could mean $1.1 billion for the IRGC.” The IRGC’s role in supporting terror plots and terrorist proxies around the world, particularly through its foreign operations arm, the Qods Force, is well-documented. The State Department says Iran remains the world’s “foremost state sponsor of terrorism.”

Iran last January and February received $1.7 billion, in cash, from the U.S. government in settlement of a claim for funds paid before the 1979 Iranian revolution for undelivered military equipment. $400 million was frozen Iranian funds, while the other $1.3 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money was negotiated interest, accrued over three-and-a-half decades. (The funds were frozen after the revolution when regime-backed students seized the U.S. Embassy and took as hostage 52 Americans who were held for 444 days.)

Late last month, Iran’s Guardian Council ratified the country’s 2016-17 budget which, according to Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Saeed Ghasseminejad, incorporated a legislative stipulation that the $1.7 billion from legal settlements go to the military budget. “There is no longer any doubt that the money the United States has paid to Iran will go to the Islamic Republic’s armed forces,” Ghasseminejad wrote in a Sept. 1 policy brief. “It remains unclear how the military will spend it – potentially to prop up the Syrian regime, Hezbollah, Shi’ite militias in Iraq, or Houthi rebels in Yemen, or to buy heavy weaponry from Russia in contravention of the U.N. arms embargo.”

The first U.S. payment, $400 million, was flown in to Tehran on the same day as the regime freed four imprisoned Americans. The administration rejected – and continues to reject – critics’ accusations that it amounted to a “ransom,” although later conceded that it had been used as “leverage” to ensure the Americans’ release that day.

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UK still have 4 billion pounds of Iranian assets frozen

28 members of EU have frozen assets in their bank

 

[pwjohn]

We can all agree that Obama paid Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,
Not matter what you call it sending Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,is illegal

Treasury’s guidance cites to what’s known as the ITSR (Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations), the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that implements anti-terrorism sanctions initiated by President Clinton under federal law. The specific provision cited is Section 560.204, which states: The exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, technology, or services to Iran or the Government of Iran is prohibited. [Emphasis added.] The regulation goes on to stress that this prohibition may not be circumvented by exporting things of value “to a person in a third country” when one has “knowledge or reason to know that” such things are “intended specifically for supply, transshipment, or reexportation, directly or indirectly, to Iran or the Government of Iran.”

Read more at: Iran Ransom Payment: President Obama Broke the Law by Sending Cash to Iran | National Review

If so than I'm sure repub leadership in both houses of congress will be looking to impeach the president. Right!

 

[aris2chat]

We can all agree that Obama paid Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,
Not matter what you call it sending Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,is illegal

Treasury’s guidance cites to what’s known as the ITSR (Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations), the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that implements anti-terrorism sanctions initiated by President Clinton under federal law. The specific provision cited is Section 560.204, which states: The exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, technology, or services to Iran or the Government of Iran is prohibited. [Emphasis added.] The regulation goes on to stress that this prohibition may not be circumvented by exporting things of value “to a person in a third country” when one has “knowledge or reason to know that” such things are “intended specifically for supply, transshipment, or reexportation, directly or indirectly, to Iran or the Government of Iran.”

Read more at: Iran Ransom Payment: President Obama Broke the Law by Sending Cash to Iran | National Review

If so than I'm sure repub leadership in both houses of congress will be looking to impeach the president. Right!

Impeachment procedures will take longer than Obama will be in office.

Now treason after he leaves office and is no longer president.........

 

[pwjohn]

We can all agree that Obama paid Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,
Not matter what you call it sending Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,is illegal

Treasury’s guidance cites to what’s known as the ITSR (Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations), the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that implements anti-terrorism sanctions initiated by President Clinton under federal law. The specific provision cited is Section 560.204, which states: The exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, technology, or services to Iran or the Government of Iran is prohibited. [Emphasis added.] The regulation goes on to stress that this prohibition may not be circumvented by exporting things of value “to a person in a third country” when one has “knowledge or reason to know that” such things are “intended specifically for supply, transshipment, or reexportation, directly or indirectly, to Iran or the Government of Iran.”

Read more at: Iran Ransom Payment: President Obama Broke the Law by Sending Cash to Iran | National Review

If so than I'm sure repub leadership in both houses of congress will be looking to impeach the president. Right!

Impeachment procedures will take longer than Obama will be in office.

Now treason after he leaves office and is no longer president.........

In other words repubs couldn't careless about enforcing the law ! Or maybe your claim that some kind of a laws been broken is bullshit. Which is it?

 

[Manonthestreet]

Fun fact...Russia is running out of cash

 

[LuckyDuck]

The sooner that bozo is out of the oval office, the better.

 

[pwjohn]

The sooner that bozo is out of the oval office, the better.

He'll leave office after serving two full terms and with a decent enough approval rating.

 

[aris2chat]

We can all agree that Obama paid Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,
Not matter what you call it sending Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,is illegal

Treasury’s guidance cites to what’s known as the ITSR (Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations), the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that implements anti-terrorism sanctions initiated by President Clinton under federal law. The specific provision cited is Section 560.204, which states: The exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, technology, or services to Iran or the Government of Iran is prohibited. [Emphasis added.] The regulation goes on to stress that this prohibition may not be circumvented by exporting things of value “to a person in a third country” when one has “knowledge or reason to know that” such things are “intended specifically for supply, transshipment, or reexportation, directly or indirectly, to Iran or the Government of Iran.”

Read more at: Iran Ransom Payment: President Obama Broke the Law by Sending Cash to Iran | National Review

If so than I'm sure repub leadership in both houses of congress will be looking to impeach the president. Right!

Impeachment procedures will take longer than Obama will be in office.

Now treason after he leaves office and is no longer president.........

In other words repubs couldn't careless about enforcing the law ! Or maybe your claim that some kind of a laws been broken is bullshit. Which is it?

Not enough time by the time they gather evidence and lawyers for Obama get involved and delay, delay, delay.......

Trying to impeach could take at least a year. We have four months

It requires the chief justice and 67 votes by the Senate. Republicans only have 45 votes, dems 44

 

[LuckyDuck]

The sooner that bozo is out of the oval office, the better.

He'll leave office after serving two full terms and with a decent enough approval rating.

He's crap, regardless of those who follow him.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Dat'll pay fer a lotta jihadis, thanks Obama...

Analyst: Iran Could Spend More Than $1 Billion of $1.7 Billion Windfall on Terror
September 16, 2016 – The Iranian regime could direct more than $1 billion of the $1.7 billion it received from the Obama administration early this year towards sponsoring terrorism, a defense policy analyst said Thursday.

Rachel Hoff, director of defense analysis at the center-right American Action Forum, based the assertion on the fact – reported several weeks ago – that Iran has earmarked the $1.7 billion to its military budget; and to her own earlier research findings that some 65 percent of its defense budget is channeled to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). “It is unlikely that Iran accurately reports its military or paramilitary spending, but the reported budget figures are useful as a minimum baseline,” Hoff wrote. “Applying the official spending levels to the U.S. payment to Iran, the $1.7 billion could mean $1.1 billion for the IRGC.” The IRGC’s role in supporting terror plots and terrorist proxies around the world, particularly through its foreign operations arm, the Qods Force, is well-documented. The State Department says Iran remains the world’s “foremost state sponsor of terrorism.”

Iran last January and February received $1.7 billion, in cash, from the U.S. government in settlement of a claim for funds paid before the 1979 Iranian revolution for undelivered military equipment. $400 million was frozen Iranian funds, while the other $1.3 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money was negotiated interest, accrued over three-and-a-half decades. (The funds were frozen after the revolution when regime-backed students seized the U.S. Embassy and took as hostage 52 Americans who were held for 444 days.)

Late last month, Iran’s Guardian Council ratified the country’s 2016-17 budget which, according to Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Saeed Ghasseminejad, incorporated a legislative stipulation that the $1.7 billion from legal settlements go to the military budget. “There is no longer any doubt that the money the United States has paid to Iran will go to the Islamic Republic’s armed forces,” Ghasseminejad wrote in a Sept. 1 policy brief. “It remains unclear how the military will spend it – potentially to prop up the Syrian regime, Hezbollah, Shi’ite militias in Iraq, or Houthi rebels in Yemen, or to buy heavy weaponry from Russia in contravention of the U.N. arms embargo.”

The first U.S. payment, $400 million, was flown in to Tehran on the same day as the regime freed four imprisoned Americans. The administration rejected – and continues to reject – critics’ accusations that it amounted to a “ransom,” although later conceded that it had been used as “leverage” to ensure the Americans’ release that day.

MORE

Maybe, the money is a gesture of goodwill and a way of softening our position towards Iran.

We MUST do the same thing with China and Russia, rather than stick our noses into what is obviously their most innermost affairs. Our leaders only need to stop being so stubborn and instead of the threats, renew the peace we had only a year or two ago by offering a hand of friendship.

1. Stop sailing our Naval fleet through the new Chinese territory of their islands. (It is just not worth it to quibble so mightily over tiny little islands)
2. Let Russia do everything they want to do in Ukraine without interference. There may be very good reasons for what is happening, and threatening does not help anyone.

We must not stack ourselves up against the greater powers of the world. We can include Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS as some of the greater powers, because we have seen the devastation they are capable of, without hardly losing any momentum whatsoever. And the Taliban taught the Soviet Union a lesson and was probably the major reason it disappeared.

America cannot remained charmed forever, if we continue to in small degrees go to war with the greater world. People that live in China and Russia are much simpler people than us, and they may not prosper if we keep pushing. That could be a much greater provocation than you might realize. At the same time, people that live in the desert have no room for the horrors of war. It is far too difficult to survive in desert cities, even without war.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

We can all agree that Obama paid Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,
Not matter what you call it sending Iran $400 Million dollars in cash,is illegal

For the lack of a better expression, it might be "undercover diplomany." Our government is far too secretive to explain what is going on. If they were honest, there surely would be a way to do it legitamitely.

This is exactly what happened in the Iran-Contra affair.