Now again, I ask...  What's so fishy?  I've just posted ^^above^^ the explanation as provided by the Wall Street Journal, the Obama response, and this particular journalist's reporting of the transaction.

 

There are your answer's JT$.

 

Now what's so fishy?  What has you so concerned?  Why is this negotiation over money that is we owed them, unless you are of the trump mindset that we shouldn't pay our debts so confusing.

 

TL;DR the my above post:  The 400 Million was the first installment based on the nuclear deal agreement.  The 1.7 Billion accounts for a slight amount of interest (so I was wrong with my original post this morning) and adjusted for inflation.  The amounts were paid in foreign currency (not dollars) because we do not have normalized relationships with Iran.  

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