Subj : Your tax dollars at
To   : aaron thomas
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Sun Dec 29 2019 01:57 am

Hello Aaron,

>   DS> DUH -- and we gave their money back to them as part of their agreeing
> to
>   DS> stop developing nuclear weapons.  And it *WAS* a pretty good
> incentive,
>
> Maybe you're right about this - and maybe the rest of the world including
> me
> is very uninformed about this subject - but what are you talking about?
>
> I can't find any news article that explains how the USA possessed 1.7
> billion
> dollars of Iranian money. How did Iran let that happen? The country that
> they
> wish death to was holding 1.7 billion dollars of their money? And like
> superheroes, Obama & Kerry gave that money back to its rightful owner?
>
> The way I remember the scandal was that we were paying Iran, with our own
> 1.7
> billion dollars, to denuclearize. Does the National Enquirer say something
> different? How do we pay Iran, with their own money, to denuclearize?

President Carter froze Iranian assets after our embassy personnel
were taken hostage.  He writes about it in his memoir, "Keeping Faith".

--Lee

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