http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-u-s-sent-400m-cash-to-iran-as-american-detainees-freed/
The Obama administration strongly denied paying any ransom to Iran,
Brennan says, but according to details first reported by the Wall Street
Journal, currency worth $400 million was flown into Tehran on a cargo
plane around the same time that the Americans were released.
The
plane was loaded with cash: Euros, Swiss Francs and other currencies,
since any transaction with Iran in dollars is illegal under United
States law.
Senior U.S. officials, Brennan reports, claimed the
timing was coincidental: President Obama had planned to pay Tehran
nearly 2 billion dollars to settle an outstanding legal dispute from
before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
"With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well," Obama said.
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