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The Obama administration quietly shipped $400 million stacked on wooden pallets in an unmarked plane to Iran in January — just as Tehran was releasing four Americans who had been detained there, according to a report.
The huge cash load represented the first payment of a $1.7 billion debt that Iran, at an international tribunal in The Hague, claimed it was owed over a failed 1979 arms deal signed before the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal Tuesday night.
The Obama administration was accused Tuesday night of making the cash-for-hostages deal by timing the payout to the release — but US officials said the money was simply part of settling the nearly 40-year-old debt under the terms of the historic nuclear agreement hammered out in 2015.
"As we've made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim . . . were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home," State Department spokesman John Kirby told the Journal.
Source: New York Post
the Obama administration transferred the equivalent of $400 million to their central banks. It was then converted into other currencies, stacked onto the wooden pallets and sent to Iran on board a cargo plane.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @07:14PM
The SAP reporting requirements to FINCEN are for banks only, most emphatically not a bank's customers.
The last time I made a cash transaction of over $20,000, I didn't tell the bank staff anything as to my intended purpose. By law, anything I would have said is required to be recorded in a Suspicious Activity Report ("suspicious" based solely on the dollar value), which is insulting and repugnant to a free people. There was quite a bit of fuss among the bank staff, but after calmly and politely mentioning those facts a few times and nothing else, they processed my transaction, sent off their essentially empty SAP, and that was that.