AP 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 doesnt say is that most of that money was Irans to begin with. The rest relates to an old debt the U.S. had with Iran. The numbers and some details ...

AP President Donald Trump is railing against law enforcement and lawmakers this time over an Obama-era payment to Iran. Trump says in a tweet that hes never gotten over the fact that Obama was able to send $1.7 Billion Dollars in CASH to Iran and nobody in Congress, the FBI or Justice called for an investigation! The Obama administration transferred ...

US payment of $400 million of Iranian money which sparked outcry among American politicians was followed by another transfer of $1.3 billion, it has been reported. The total sum of $1.7 billion was related to an arms deal that Iran signed before 1979 when the Shah was a close ally of the United States but Washington was refusing to give it back....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani dismissed the idea that there was a connection between the $400 million in cash that Iran received from the US as part of an old debt and the process of negotiations on Tehrans nuclear program. Washingtons payment of $400 million in cash to Tehran was part ...