Bill Clinton knows all about the $400 million that was given to
Iran in January 2016.
The money wasn’t supposed to go back to Iran. It was supposed to
be put back in the U.S. Treasury.
In 1999, former
hostage Terry Anderson filed suit against the government of Iran seeking
damages for his 2,454 days of captivity.
Anderson and his family received $41.2 million in compensatory
damages, and former Lebanon hostages David P. Jacobsen, Joseph J. Cicippio and
Frank H. Reed received $9 million, $30 million and $26 million respectively.
The family of slain Marine Col. William R. Higgins got $55.4 million.
In 2000, when Bill Clinton was president, $213 million was
distributed to eight families that won judgments against Iran in a series of
U.S. court cases. In a precedent setting turn of events, the money came from
the U.S. Treasury. It didn’t come from Iran. The U.S. government assumed responsibility
for collecting on the claims from Iran.
The Clinton administration and Congress agreed to put up the
money. They expected to get it back either through an international claims
tribunal or negotiations with Iran.
In 2015 and 2016, President Obama and Secretary of State John
Kerry negotiated with Iran. They didn’t get the money back. They converted the
money to foreign currencies and gave the cash to Iran. In effect, Iran never
did pay the money that their victims were awarded.
My source for this information is the Washington Post. On
October 22, 2000, they published an article titled “Terrorism Victims Set
Precedent”.
The money that was paid to Iran’s victims was supposed to come
from the same $400 million in cash that was delivered to Iran in 2016. That is
clear.
The Washington Post article from the year 2000 states: “The
United States will pay nearly all the judgments against Iran from the U.S.
Treasury, then will seek to recoup the funds from the frozen accounts through
the Claims Tribunal or future negotiations with Iran. The law caps the total
damages against Iran at about $400 million, the amount that is in an account
kept by the Pentagon for more than 20 years, when the United States sold
military planes and parts to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Even if Iran prevails
at the tribunal, the United States will argue that it first must reimburse the
U.S. Treasury for the cost of the court judgments, administration officials
said.”
USA Today published an article on June 20, 2001 that mentions
the $400 million as a possible source for other Iranian victim’s compensation.
As far as I know, no one is reporting this aspect of the $400 million.
I have the news on all day and I haven’t heard anyone talking about it. This
should be big news.
In February 2016, NorthJersey.com, a part of the USA Today network,
published an article titled “Iran Terror Tab Wiped Clean Angering Victim’s Families”.
The article states “More than a dozen American
families — including one from Teaneck and another from West Orange — that lost
loved ones in Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks agreed to accept checks from the
federal government 16 years ago to settle diplomatically sensitive lawsuits
against Iran. But the families had one demand — and American officials agreed
to it: Iran would eventually be forced to pay for this settlement as soon as
the United States could tap a $400 million Iranian account that had been frozen
years before. That promise appears to have been broken. Last month, without
fanfare, U.S. officials returned that money to the Iranians, effectively
saddling American taxpayers with a bill that Iran was supposed to pay.”
The article also states: “The families agreed to accept only a
fraction of the multimillion dollar judgments they had been awarded in U.S.
courts if Iran was ultimately forced to pay for them. As a bookkeeping measure,
the families were told they had to take their settlement money in the form of
checks from the U.S. Treasury. However, the families say they were assured that
the United States would not return any frozen Iranian assets until the U.S.
government had effectively reimbursed itself for the settlement. That never
happened. Interviews with current and former State and Treasury department
officials indicate that the Obama administration opted to sweep away any old
liens that had been placed on Iranian assets as a way of improving relations
with Tehran.”
Newsweek also published an article about the payments on January
22, 2016.
We were told by the Obama administration that the money given to
Iran in January 2016 was Iran’s money.
We were lied to. They gave Iran U.S. taxpayer money. Obama also
lied when he said he saved us money because they negotiated a lower interest
rate on the money. If the agreement back in the year 2000 was for Iran to
eventually pay the $400 million back to the United States, how could any
interest money be owed?
Many people believe that the $400 million was ransom money. If
it was, it was United States taxpayer money. It’s very clear that taxpayer
money was given to Iran. It’s very clear that Obama lied.
The victim’s families are upset. Every American citizen would be
upset, if they knew the truth.
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