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It's also important to note that the money was certainly recorded and marked in ways that makes it traceable. Not only is it a fraction of the money we were holding hostage, it is potentially a valuable espionage tool to see who they are giving money to. Of course they know this as well and will not dare giving it to anyone who might make them look bad.So let me see if I have this right. We owned $400 million to Iran. They wanted their $400 million and we'd agreed to give it back to them. But Obama put a condition of the delivery of Iran's money....that Iran return prisoners to the US.
Which Iran did. And republicans have inexplicably called a 'ransom'.
Um.....generally speaking a random doesn't already belong to the people you are paying it to.