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Trump just claims he saw a video of this transaction when actually there's no video, except the one playing in his head. Turns out the money was seized in 1977 and held in trust and that the timeline is confused because we haven't talked to Iran in 40 years, lol.
This is the guy we need running things - um ok.
Except for the part where the 400$ million was already promised to cover American law suits against Iran.
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Legal claims are one of the reasons the payment to Iran was controversial when Obama first announced it. The Clinton administration had agreed in 2000 to pay that $400 million to Americans who had won lawsuits against Iran in US courts.
These families and individuals had sued the Islamic Republic for damages after the deaths of loved ones or for being the victims themselves of Iran-backed kidnappings or terrorist attacks. At the time, US officials told those families the money would come from Iran.
With Obama's announcement, it became apparent that the payments had come from US taxpayers and not from Iran at all.
This post was edited by remco6 on Aug 4 2016 06:43pm