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grayed-down | 5 years ago

Don't forget the pallets of cash to Iran!

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ceejayoz|5 years ago

https://apnews.com/727282bdead6489a8521059936375210/AP-FACT-...

> President Donald Trump likes to tell a story about the U.S. paying out billions of dollars to Iran as part of the multinational deal freezing its nuclear program and easing sanctions against it. What he doesn’t say is that most of that money was Iran’s to begin with. The rest relates to an old debt the U.S. had with Iran.

grayed-down|5 years ago

True, but those funds were being withheld from Iran for a very good reason.

baybal2|5 years ago

I was think of Iran Contra when I read it