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"

 

<div>"The settlement was announced the same day in January as Iran received its first round of sanctions relief from the Iran deal.
 
So yes, this "settlement" was announced.  Why in CASH and why the secrecy of the "down payment" or "first installment"?
 
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.
 
Why is that?  Because Iran happens to be on the list of States that Spenser Terrorism?

 
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."
 
 
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