Quote:Something with this whole story just doesn't pass the smell test with me.

 

A.  The timing.  I heard part of an interview today with one of the released hostages, and he described having to wait "for another airplane to arrive" before they were freed.

 

B.  This was CASH paid by our government to another "government" in physical currency.

 

C.  This CASH was paid in foreign currency, not U.S. dollars.  If our country is paying another country for anything, why does it have to be in foreign currency?

 

D.  There was a congressional inquiry regarding this, and the Obama Administration Regime refused to answer questions regarding it.

 

E.  Iran is on the list of States that Sponsor Terrorism, and therefore by law we should not be doing any commerce with them.

 

F.  This transaction happened in a way that governments never do.

 

It is not very difficult to find the answers to most of these.  You just have to use your eyes and brains instead of your "smell test"

 

"The settlement was announced the same day in January as Iran received its first round of sanctions relief from the Iran deal.
 
The $400 million payment, delivered in foreign cash because US law prevents the government from giving Iran dollars, was the first installment toward the $1.7 billion total. Getting together large amounts of foreign cash is hard, apparently — hence the installment plan.
 
So there you have it. The payment, which sounds really shady out of context, was actually the end of a boring, decades-old international legal case totally unrelated to the hot-button nuclear and prisoner issues."
 

<p style="font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);">E.  Iran is on the list of States that Sponsor Terrorism, and therefore by law we should not be doing any commerce with them.

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What commerce? this was a legal settlement. There was no recent buying or selling of anything.

 

F.  This transaction happened in a way that governments never do.

 

Do you have a cite for that?  No country has ever paid another country in cash...ever?

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