Saturday, September 10, 2016

OBAMA PAID IRAN $11,9B IN SECRET CASH, GOLD

Wall Street Journal broke the story that the Obama regime paid the Iranians $400 million in unmarked currencies as ransom for four US Iranian hostages. It is illegal under US law and fits the legal definition of money laundering. The White House is denying, saying it was settlement for an old dispute. The release of the hostages on the same day is a coincidence. 



Sep. 9, 2016 FoxNews: Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

 UPDATE: Iran may have received an additional $33.6 billion in secret cash and gold payments facilitated by the Obama administration between 2014 and 2016, according to testimony provided before Congress by an expert on last summer’s nuclear agreement with Iran. Between January 2014 and July 2015, when the Obama administration was hammering out the final details of the nuclear accord, Iran was paid $700 million every month from funds that had previously been frozen by U.S. sanctions. A total of $11.9 billion was ultimately paid to Iran, but the details surrounding these payments remain shrouded in mystery, according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In total, “Iran may have received as much as $33.6 billion in cash or in gold and other precious metals,” Dubowitz disclosed. New questions about these payments are emerging following confirmation from top Obama administration officials on Thursday that it was forced to pay Iran $1.7 billion in cash prior to the release of several U.S. hostages earlier this year. The administration insisted that cash had to be used for this payment. (Source)


Sep. 7, 2016

OBAMA PAID IRAN $1,3B CASH POST RANSOM


(...) the Obama administration followed up a planeload of $400 million in cash sent to Iran in January with two more such shipments in the next 19 days, totaling another $1.3 billion. The cash payments were once again made in foreign currencies, mostly Swiss francs, euros, and settled a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal dating back to 1979. U.S. officials have acknowledged the payment of the first $400 million coincided with Iran’s release of American prisoners and was used as leverage to ensure they were flown out of Tehran’s Mehrabad on the morning of Jan. 17. The White Hous has yet to comment if the incremental $1.3 billion was also part of a ransom payment prearranged with Iran. According to the WSJ, the Obama administration briefed lawmakers on Tuesday when it told them that two further portions of the $1.3 billion were transferred though Europe on Jan. 22 and Feb. 5. The payment “flowed in the same manner” as the original $400 million that an Iranian cargo plane picked up in Geneva, Switzerland, according to a congressional aide who took part in the briefing. The paper also notes that the original $400 million was converted into non-U.S. currencies by the Swiss and Dutch central banks. The Treasury Department confirmed late Tuesday that the subsequent payments were also made in cash. “The form of those principal and interest payments—made in non-U.S. currency, in cash—was necessitated by the effectiveness of U.S. and international sanctions regimes over the last several years in isolating Iran from the international financial system,” Treasury spokeswoman Dawn Selak said. (More) 





Aug. 5, 2016

IRAN HOSTAGE WAITED AS RANSOM WAS DELIVERED

Aug 4, 2016 US Iranian Hostage Saeed Abidini: the Iranian regime would not let his plane leave Iran until Obama's ransom plane arrived with $400 million in euros and Swiss Francs. 


On Thursday a Fox Business Network program hosted one of the hostages, Saeed Abedini who stated that on the night he was freed, his captors told him they were waiting on another plane to arrive before letting him go. Abedini said, “I just remember the night that we’d been in a[n] airport, just take hours and hours there. And I asked one of the…police that was with us, that, why are you not letting us to go to the…plane? And he told me we are waiting for another plane, and if that plane take off, then we’re going to let you go.” (More)
The media have found a way to distract attention from embarrassing matter and are concentrating on a side issue that Trump mentioned stacks of cash on a plane on footage that doesn't exist. In other words, he's crazy and a liar. Well, here's the footage (in the tweet below).






Aug. 4, 2016

DISINGENUOUS OBAMA DENIAL OF $400M RANSOM TO IRAN 

The Obama administration is vigorously denying that the shipment of $400 million to Iran was a ransom payment for the release of American hostages earlier this year, but the former chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence says the timing and the secrecy make it clear the U.S. clearly bought off the Iranian captors. The Wall Street Journal broke the story Tuesday, detailing what happened back in January while most Americans were focused on the release of the prisoners.

“The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran (...) Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland. The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.”
Hoekstra said the idea that the Obama administration is horrified by the suggestion it paid ransom for hostages doesn’t even square with U.S. policy on the issue, a policy Obama unilaterally changed. “He made it very, very clear this summer that if families wanted to pursue paying ransom for family members or friends who were being held hostage, the U.S. government would assist them in that process and would never, ever prosecute them,” Hoekstra said.

Prior to the policy change, the U.S. government forbade families of hostages from negotiating financial terms for the release of their loved ones and did threaten federal prosecution. As a result of the policy shift and this report, Hoekstra fears terrorists will declare open season on Americans abroad.(...)

Even more, Hoekstra says Obama undercut the efforts of Americans to claim some of that $1.7 billion from Iran due to damages caused by Iranian-backed terrorism. “They were going after the Iranians in U.S. courts to collect damages that the Iranians had imposed on these individuals,” he said. “It’s not like they were only litigating whether this was Iranian money or not.

There were also U.S. citizens who were attempting to litigate and get settlements for the damages that they received from Iran.” In addition to the convenient timing of the money transfer, Hoekstra said if there was no connection to the hostage release, why are Americans only learning about this now? “If it’s purely a coincidence, then why all the secrecy?” he asked.

“They have fundamentally turned America’s foreign policy head over heels, now negotiating ransom payments for hostages, embracing the Muslim Brotherhood, embracing the regime in Iran, embracing Cuba. The list goes on and on,” Hoekstra said. (More)




Aug. 3, 2016

OBAMA PAID IRAN $400 MILLION FOR HOSTAGES

As Iran was releasing the four American hostages they were holding, the Obama administration was sending $400 million to the Iranians. It was a hostage payment in direct opposition to US policy and it is an invitation to more hostage taking. The excuse is that it was part of a settlement reached over a 1979 failed arms deal – we gave them interest for a deal reached before the Ayatollah took control and seized Americans hostage. However, the $400 million was exchanged in cash at the exact time of he release and it was hidden from Congress, please read on.
The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward. Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said. The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 
Obama forgot to mention the transfer of $400 million. 
“With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment. 
Since the payoff, the intelligence arm of the Revolutionary Guard has arrested two more Iranian-Americans. The $400 million was paid in foreign currency because any transaction with Iran in U.S. dollars is illegal under U.S. law. Sanctions also complicate Tehran’s access to global banks, the Wall Street Journal reported. Some have questioned referring to this as a ransom so we have added to the article. It was definitely a ransom if one looks at the original article carefully. 

IT WAS A RANSOM (...) IRAN HAS TAKEN MORE HOSTAGES AND WANTS ANOTHER RANSOM Tehran went back to arresting American hostages after releasing the last round, and are now seeking another billion dollar deal in the last six months of the administration. Since the cash shipment… the Revolutionary Guard has arrested two more Iranian-Americans. Tehran has also detained dual-nationals from France, Canada and the U.K. in recent months.

At the time of the prisoner release, Secretary of State John Kerry and the White House portrayed it as a diplomatic breakthrough. Mr. Kerry cited the importance of “the relationships forged and the diplomatic channels unlocked over the course of the nuclear talks.”… Friends and family of the Namazis believe the Iranians are seeking to increase their leverage to force another prisoner exchange or cash payment in the final six months of the Obama administration. 

Mr. Kerry and other U.S. officials have been raising their case with Iranian diplomats… Iranian officials have demanded in recent weeks the U.S. return $2 billion in Iranian funds that were frozen in New York in 2009. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the money should be given to victims of Iranian-sponsored terror attacks. We actually knew this but it’s news again. (More) (More)



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