Quote: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."



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



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?

There ya go, cuz they said so... Geez.


But the question is why? Wouldn't a wire transfer be more secure? Why money on a secret mission? I understand why it may be a secret upfront (don't exactly want the world to know you're flying in $400 million), but why not tell the American people once the deal is done? And why waste all the time, money to do such an expensive operation? Why was it a secret? Did you get any of those answers that were fed by the white house?

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