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Right-wing media use Soleimani assassination to lie about 2015 Iran nuclear deal
WRITTEN BY JASON CAMPBELL
PUBLISHED 01/06/20 11:08 AM EST
On January 2, President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike assassinating Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassam Soleimani, who commanded Irans Quds Forces, a branch of the nations Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Right-wing media have been quick to defend the Trump administration for this escalation of hostilities between Iran and the United States, including by spreading old lies about the Obama administrations 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
One particular lie that has recently resurfaced on Fox News and in other conservative media is that the Obama administration bribed Iran with billions of dollars.
In reality, some of the money Iran received as part of the 2015 nuclear deal was simply its own newly unfrozen assets from around the world; the rest was $1.7 billion the Obama administration sent to Iran to repay a decades-old IOU, administration officials said.
Prior to the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government paid $400 million for American military contracts that were never delivered; the Obama administration agreed to reimburse that money, along with $1.3 billion in interest, as part of the nuclear deal. As The New York Times reported in 2017, The United States did not directly give Iran money as part of the 2015 nuclear deal. Instead, the U.S. simply delivered money it had owed Iran for decades, along with the interest on this delayed payment. It is true that the U.S. delivered this payment in cash and some of it was flown to Iran on an airplane. The Obama administration considered cash to be the most efficient and reliable way to pay the Iranians their money.
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Right-wing media use Soleimani assassination to lie about 2015 Iran nuclear deal (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2020
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Turbineguy
(37,366 posts)1. It's important for the RWNJ's to lie.
Trump proves that it works. At least sufficiently.
mopinko
(70,216 posts)2. good try, but the reason for the cash was that iran didnt have access to banking systems
under sanctions.
Dawn Oday
(7 posts)3. McCain rolling over
Donny, Bomb, bomb, bomb,,,,bomb, bomb Iran was one of McCain's ideas. But you hate McCain because he got caught defending his country. And now there you are claiming to be defending the country. The impending bloodletting will be on your hands. Dump Dump Dump,,,,Dump, Dump the Trump.