The Patriot Post® · Iran: Obama's Proliferating BIG Lie

There’s no shortage of spurious claims promulgated by the Obama administration. But when it comes to Iran, the consequences of getting it wrong are exceptionally dangerous. And every new development only reaffirms that Obama is conjuring up narratives faster than Iran can chant “Death to America.” A new report reveals that in July 2015 and April 2016 the U.S. government sent Iran a total of around $10 million to close the books on two separate arrangements. It’s not necessarily the subject of those arrangements but the means of how the money got to the mullahs that’s drawing attention.

The funds, the Treasury Department recently conceded, were electronically wired — an admission that entirely subverts Obama’s August assertion regarding how the highly contentious ransom payment to Iran was crafted earlier this year: “The reason that we had to give them cash is precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions and we do not have a banking relationship with Iran, that we couldn’t send them a check and we could not wire the money.” On the contrary, the July transaction is particularly noteworthy because sanctions were still in full effect.

According to Sen. James Lankford, “I don’t have any question that Iran wants the money in cash because they wanted it faster than what a wire transfer would be and it’s fungible. They announced pretty quickly afterward that they were expanding their defense and their military budget by $1.7 billion dollars, an exact amount that we had just sent over to them. So I don’t think that was accidental. But when you give cash, we can’t track. Did that go to Hezbollah? Did that go to the Russians? Did that go to the coup in Yemen? There’s no way to be able to track that.” What we do know without question is that Obama’s placating Iran — in a shroud of secrecy, no less — has severely undermined our national security.