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US paid Islamic Republic of Iran $1.3 billion owed to Shah’s regime

Aug 22, 2016 10:44 pm By Robert Spencer

“The administration agreed to pay Iran $1.7 billion to compensate that country for its payment to the U.S. in 1979 for military equipment. That deal fell through after Iran’s government was overthrown, and the Obama administration has said it owes Iran this money, plus interest.”

Why wasn’t this money paid to the Islamic Republic of Iran by Carter (yes, even Carter!), Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, or George W. Bush? Because the deal was made with the Shah, not the Islamic Republic, and obviously none of them thought they had to honor deals made with the Shah with the Islamic Republic, especially considering the fact that the Islamic Republic has been on a war footing with the U.S. since 1979. They probably also thought it unwise to send massive amounts of cash to a rogue state.

Obama seems intent on empowering Iran, and with a compliant media bought off and never challenging him and a clueless and feckless Republican opposition, he has a free hand to do so.

And so now Iran has $1.7 billion to finance jihad terrorism.

Khamenei

“State Department can’t say who in Iran got another $1.3 billion,” by Pete Kasperowicz, Washington Examiner, August 22, 2016:

The State Department confirmed Monday that the Obama administration has paid Iran another $1.3 billion to settle a failed arms deal from 1979, but couldn’t describe who in the Iran government it paid, and couldn’t say what form that payment took — cash, check or otherwise.

The State Department also admitted it can’t guarantee that the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps wouldn’t be able to get its hands on the money eventually.

“We can always hand it over to someone who can hand it over to the IRGC,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. Many in the U.S. see the IRGC as being responsible for helping to finance terrorism.

The administration agreed to pay Iran $1.7 billion to compensate that country for its payment to the U.S. in 1979 for military equipment. That deal fell through after Iran’s government was overthrown, and the Obama administration has said it owes Iran this money, plus interest.

The first installment of the payment was a $400 million cash payment, which has drawn criticism from Republicans. They say it looks like a ransom payment to ensure the release of American hostages who Iran released this year.

When asked how the remaining $1.3 billion was paid, Toner said he didn’t know.

“I’ll try my best to get details about that,” he said. He said the problem there is that the government generally doesn’t want to reveal entities that help the U.S. make these payments, since the U.S. has no direct financial relationship with Iran.

But he said he also didn’t know who received the payment.

“I believe it was Iranian officials, Iranian government officials, I don’t know particularly who individually it was,” he said….

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  1. traci94 says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    Isn’t this the definition of treason?

    • Gungadin says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 6:30 am

      Yes Traci I do believe it is but our do nothing Congress hasn’t got the backbone or BALLS to do anything about it !!

      I never voted for the clown that sits in OUR house the first time nor the second time….I cant wait until he’s out of that presidential chair and we get a TRUE American in otfice..and BTW its NOT Hillary….

    • J D S says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 9:26 am

      Treason might be a mild word in referencing anything we give to iran with the exception of total sanctions or even annihilation..I ran is our sworn enemy…Does one give millions of dollars to someone who has sworn to destroy everything you stand. after the hostsges were released those many years ago we should have took i ran off the table as a world power…or if we had left Saddam alone ….by now he would have taken care of iran and probably many other bad boys….Then maybe we should have taken him out. After he had done what the west should have fone might have said ed many western lives if it had worked that way.

      • Pere LaChaise says

        Aug 23, 2016 at 9:46 am

        You idiots. The Republican Party made deals with the new Iranian revolutionary regime to keep the American hostages despite all the efforts of Carter’s admin to free them. They treasonous republicans collaborated DURING WARTIME with Khomeimi’s people to make the Democrats look bad to ensure a Reagan victory – fixing the date of the hostages’ release to immediately after Reagan’s inauguration.

        The TREASONOUS republicans during Reagan’s admin then continued to work ILLEGALLY with Khomeini’s regime when Col. Oliver North, whom you on your ignorance probably worship as some kind of “patriot”, made deals with Teheran to sell Israeli-made arms to TERRORISTS in Nicaragua. Reagan equated these satanic thugs, who bear more resemblance to jihadis, with AMERICA’S FOUNDING FATHERS.
        In your blind fealty to republican scum you have woven a fantasy of patriotism where the reality is infinitely more complex and nefarious. The uncovering of the Oliver Notth plot nearly blew the lid off the illusion of enmity between the Republican and Khomeini regimes, but the cowardly Congress made gentlemen’s agreements not to expose the truth about the US Permanent Regime which knows no partisan affiliation.
        When you wake up from your comfortable delusion that the Repigs have your back in the struggle with Islam you may become Of forming a cogent critique inclusive of the facts of deep collaboration of American politicians “on both sides of the aisle” with Islamic extremists.
        Once you have woke. From your childish dreams, you may say with the Psalmist,
        “Put not your trust in princes and sons of men,
        In whom there is no salvation”
        Until then you will be blown about on the winds of controversy because you persist in desiring not to know the truth but a flattering lie that puts you in company of men you praise, WHO ARE SELLING YOU DOWN THE RIVER.
        Idiots.

        • awake says

          Aug 23, 2016 at 11:32 am

          If that was satire, well done! If not, then please explain to me how facilitating an 8-year war between Iran and Iraq, by providing weapons to both sides, is akin to corroborating with the enemy?

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 23, 2016 at 3:35 pm

          The Mullahs did not want to release the hostages while Carter was still in power, since they–somewhat laughably–considered him an enemy. That this means that Reagan himself had arranged to have the hostages held until he took office is absurd, and calumny besides.

        • Mazo says

          Aug 24, 2016 at 9:11 pm

          Ronald Reagan is viewed as a great leader by Muslims. Most American Muslims were Republican before the GWB administration they voted for Reagan. Reagan paved the way for Muslim refugees to come to America from countries like Afghanistan in his amnesty bill and Reagan supported the Afghan mujahideen.

    • RJ says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 11:38 am

      THE MUSLIM OBAMA
      IS NO MORE A TRUE AMERICAN
      THAN ALL THOSE MUSLIMS WHO ARE LIVING IN AND OR COMING TO AMERICA…

      MUSLIMS DON’T BELONG TO ANYTHING BUT THEIR MUHAMMAD AND HIS KORAN…

      JIHAD AND THE CALIPHATE ARE THEIR ETERNAL GOALS FOR WORLDWIDE DOMINATION

    • Dany says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 6:06 pm

      I think the “bill” could be cover-up to transfer such an outrageous amount of money to fund black projects.
      UFO-projects that is:)

  2. davej says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    Pathetic – we owe them (we don’t), so they can destroy us.

    This is Treason.

    • Kay says

      Aug 22, 2016 at 11:45 pm

      I agree.
      Why aren’t there impeachment requests?
      Where is Congress’ and others’ outrage?

      • DAN III says

        Aug 23, 2016 at 2:49 am

        Kay,

        “Where’s Congress ?”

        In bed….in bed with the Taqiyya practicing Moslem, Barack Hussein soetoro-obama.

  3. gravenimage says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    US paid Islamic Republic of Iran $1.3 billion owed to Shah’s regime
    ……………………..

    This is just grotesque–no wonder the Mullah has a sh*t-eating grin pasted on his gloating face…

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 1:00 am

      Now Graven: I must insist that you don’t jump to conclusions like that if you please. In fairness, that ‘grin’ could be from lots of things. Perfectly normal islamic things…

      Maybe he just had [pedophilic] sex with his 9 year old sex slave. Or perhaps he just assisted at the FGM of a 7 year old. Or perhaps he just did it to his pet goat. Or maybe he just honor-killed his daughter. Or perhaps it was the routine beating of his wife. Or maybe he and the other mullahs iwere just at a Bacha Bazi party, where as usual the 13 year old slave was sodomized by all the old men but he got to go first.

      I mean there are so many islamic delights he could have just sampled, to account for that supremely satisfied ‘grin’.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 23, 2016 at 3:39 pm

        All true, Kathy…

  4. Paul Clark says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    Obama is a racist, an Islamist and a Lenin-Marxist socialist. His intent is to destroy a country, a race, and a religion he hates.

  5. Vew3456 says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    My big question to the Obama administration is when some government office finds hundreds of Millions of Dollars in banks here in America that belong to say daesh, al-qaeda,or even the muslim brotherhood, knowing full well it will be used to commit atrocities throughout the world, just as the cash to Iran, but because it is their’s will this administration give it back?

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 23, 2016 at 3:46 pm

      Damn good question.

  6. Ciudadano says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 11:53 pm

    Islamic goverment of Iran is a declared enemy of USA, supports terrorism, has a terrible human rights record and wants to destroy Israel. USA goverment could’ve put forward force majeure reasons, like security, to withhold the payment until it was safe to give the money back to Iran.

    • Ciudadano says

      Aug 22, 2016 at 11:55 pm

      Even better USA should’ve use that money to pay the cost of figthing Iran’s financed terrorism

  7. Don McKellar says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 12:37 am

    Imagine how Hillary will accelerate Obama’s work? America will go from incompetent boob led by the Military Industrial complex and Big Oil’s interests (George the Idiot) to the secret moslem Muslim Brotherhood operative in the White House (Barrack Hussein Obama) to the most corrupt politician in America (Crooked Hillary). THREE STRIKES AND YOU’RE OUT, AMERICA!

  8. Moses says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 1:10 am

    From the picture above the ayatollah completely suckered Obama first withe nuclear deal then with this treason.

  9. yohanan says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 3:27 am

    And what does the Islamic Republic of Iran owe to the USA? e.g. how much damages for the Tehran Embassy invasion and hostage-taking? Or is that side left for larger account?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

    You can’t buy peace for elections. An expensive lesson soon to relearn…

  10. Angemon says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 5:17 am

    but couldn’t describe who in the Iran government it paid, and couldn’t say what form that payment took — cash, check or otherwise.

    Why would the Obama administration care about such “petty” details, especially when there’s nothing they can do that will get the media against them? It’s the taxpayer’s money – it’s not like it’ll run out or anything.

  11. Laura says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 6:36 am

    With all this uproar about the payment, why has no one asked about WHY are we paying INTEREST to muslims? I thought that was haram!? They don’t believe in interest. Oh! That’s right. It’s OK for the kufir to pay it TO them. To show subjugation, and all that, no doubt. Thanks, BO. I despise you.

  12. Yorkshire Kufir says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 7:08 am

    It’s been said before: Obama, the islamist enabler.
    I hope Hilary doesn’t have the same agenda, or will simply ignore the problem, but then the uber-rich want a world ull of slaves, whether it’s to muhammed or to plutocrats is unclear.
    Trump is floundering atm but he and his advisors taking a long cool look at what all the authoritarian powers in the world want and working out how to thwart it to the benefit of Trump AND america is a tall order.

  13. duh swami says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 7:42 am

    Billions for the Ayatollah. and other Islamic despots…..penny’s for cancer research…,Where I come from, that’s called evil…

  14. Sam says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 7:44 am

    Disgusting! More disgusting is liberal supporters of traitor Obama.

  15. David says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 7:59 am

    I look at this Emoms photo and,
    with perfect clarity, I see the smiling face of SATAN himself smiling back at me!

  16. Westman says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 8:09 am

    First there was the 1979 Ayatollah and his Hostage Crisis. US Attitude: maybe it will go away after the Algiers Accords agreement.

    Then came the 1989 Ayatollah with his nuclear ambition and ransoming of US servicemen. US Attitude: maybe it will go away with a bad nuke deal, a pallet of cash, and $1.3 billion.

    Israeli attitude: The US is going to get us all killed. Start planning for a war of survival.

  17. desidude2 says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 9:21 am

    I believe that money is owed to the family of the shah of iran not to the ayatollahs. as far as i am concerned the family of the shah are the only ones deserving the money.

  18. duh swami says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 10:04 am

    The Ayatollah needs that money to pay for those fine dentures…

  19. Mark A says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    Is there no end to Obama’s weakness?

    Obama is the first US President who does not place the interests of the US above all others.

  20. Robert says

    Aug 23, 2016 at 8:38 pm

    What Pere says about Reagan, George H. W, Bush and Col. Oliver North is true. A lot went on including selling drugs and providing weapons through Iran to the Contra faction in Central America. This was known known to the FBI and the CIA. Read all about it in the book Immaculate Deception, the Bush Crime Family. Available on Amazon.

  21. maddog20-20 says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 1:14 am

    Did Iran ever recompense us for the embassy they “took over”? They committed an act of war and it should have been declared but carter was a chlckenshlt.

  22. SoCalMike says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 1:58 am

    I’m so sick to death of watching and listening to everyone pretend Obama isn’t a traitor including and especially Repubes,
    PAUL RYAN,
    When you’re finished blowing Obama, be sure to wipe off your chin and mouth wash.

    Then go commit suicide.
    Pretty please.

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