WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.The administration insists that the $400 Million payout has no relationship to the hostages Iran just happened to release at the same time. No relationship at all, none, nada, zip, null set.
Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.
The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. [Link]
Well, of course. But remember what Yogi Berra once observed: "It's too coincidental to be a coincidence."
And it's also such a coincidence that Berra's line applies over and over to this administration and its doings.
Update: "This is not the first time Obama has paid a ransom to the mullahs."
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