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As details of the administration’s $1.7 billion cash payment to Iran began to leak last month, the administration argued – from President Obama on down – that there was simply no other way to pay Iran. “We couldn’t send them a check and we could not wire the money,” the president said on August 4.
That was flat-out false: “A Treasury Department spokesman acknowledged on Saturday that on at least two occasions, the U.S. did make payments to the Iranian government via wire transfer,” Politico reports. “In July 2015, Iran nuclear agreement: U.S. withheld cash until hostages were released.
That was flat-out false: “A Treasury Department spokesman acknowledged on Saturday that on at least two occasions, the U.S. did make payments to the Iranian government via wire transfer,” Politico reports. “In July 2015, Iran nuclear agreement: U.S. withheld cash until hostages were released.