Trump says Clinton should ‘disavow’ ransom paid to Iran
By Daniel Halper
September 7, 2016 | 7:41am
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Hillary Clinton needs to “disavow” payments from the US “helping fund the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” Donald Trump’s campaign said in a statement.
The call to action by the Trump campaign comes after the Wall Street Journal reported two additional all-cash payments totaling $1.3 billion were sent to Iran.
The Journal previously reported a $400 million cash transfer to the Iranian regime — all made around the time Iran released four American hostages, causing critics to call the payments “ransom.”
“President Obama’s secret $400 million ransom payment to Iran already set an incredibly dangerous precedent, and news that it was followed by two more plane loads of cash only makes this blunder even worse,” Trump campaign senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement Tuesday night.
“Hillary Clinton’s support for President Obama’s approach to Iran, including the deeply flawed nuclear deal she helped spearhead, reflects the same bad judgment that characterized her foreign policy decision-making as Secretary of State. The United States should not be helping fund the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and Hillary Clinton needs to disavow these secret payments immediately,” Miller added.
The Obama administration has maintained the payments were meant to settle a decades-old arms deal that was never completed.
In a statement to The Post, Treasury spokesperson Dawn Selak said: “As we announced at the beginning of this year and was widely reported at the time, the United States in January agreed to pay Iran $1.7 billion to settle a long-standing legal claim at the Hague. The form of those principal and interest payments – made in non-U.S. currency, in cash – was necessitated by the effectiveness of U.S. and international sanctions regimes over the last several years in isolating Iran from the international financial system.”
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