Revealed in a lawsuit against Barak Obama by:
Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
MARK KIRK, Illinois, Chairman
In August and September of 2016, the Wall Street Journal revealed the Obama Administration had secretly airlifted $400 million to Iran in January of 2016, and another $1.3 billion to Iran weeks later, and the total $1.7 billion payment was made all in foreign currency. To get a sense of just how much cash we sent to Iran, look at this chart. A stack of $400 million in 500-euro notes is–would total 264 feet tall. The $1.3 billion in 500-euro notes equals two stacks that are 430 feet tall. For comparison, the Tribune Tower in my home of Chicago is about 462 feet tall. Then, last Sunday, we learned that the Administration had made at least two wire transfer payments to Iran prior to January of 2016. In July of 2015, the U.S. wired $848,000 to Iran to settle a museum dispute involving art and fossils. Then, in April of 2016, the United States wired $9 million to Iran as part of the deal to move 32 metric tons of heavy water from Iran’s nuclear program. These United States wire payments contradict the President’s claim that the United States had prevented–was prevented from paying Iran any other way besides cash. These wire transfers also raised questions of why we paid Iran in cash, and when we would have used–when we should have used safer payment methods.
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