Obama said the one new piece of information, first reported this week by The Wall Street Journal, was that the $400 million was paid in cash.
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Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will soon be receiving classified briefings, giving them access to sensitive information about national security and America’s military posture.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shakes hands during a campaign rally at Merrill Auditorium, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in Portland, Maine. Although the US government maintains that the payment was part of separate settlement related to a decades-old arms deal, many critics believe it amounted to a ransom.
Trump’s tweet came a day after he repeated his claim that he had seen footage of a plane unloading millions of dollars in Iran.
“I’ll never forget the scene this morning“, Trump told the crowd. Trump tweeted early Friday morning.
His reversal comes just days after he said at a Florida campaign rally that video released by Iran showed people taking money from the plane in order to embarrass the United States, according to The Washington Post.
“Remember this: Iran – I don’t think you heard this anywhere but here”, Trump said.
“Now, here’s the unbelievable thing: Over there, where that plane landed, top secret, you don’t have a lot of paparazzi”. Right? You saw that? And they have a flawless tape.
According to the Journal article, the USA sent Iran wooden pallets of euros, Swiss francs, and other currencies because US transactions with Iran in dollars are illegal under American law. It’s a military tape. “Nobody getting nervous because they’re going to be shot because they’re shooting a picture of money pouring off a plane”. Many allege it can not be mere coincidence that a plane containing four American prisoners took off within a few short hours of the money-plane landing in Tehran.
Responding to comments by US President Barack Obama, who said that Israel has acknowledged that Iran is keeping its end of the nuclear deal, the Defense Ministry released a highly unusual and strongly-worded statement on Friday, comparing the arrangement to the failed 1938 Pact with the Nazis.
Even after his campaign said the video he was describing did not show the cash transfer, Trump repeated the claim at a rally in ME on Thursday. Because they want to embarrass our country.
But several senior USA officials involved in the Iran negotiations have told The Associated Press they weren’t aware of any such footage.
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He pointed to Trump’s recent criticism of Kaine, who Trump said in a late-July news conference “did a awful job in New Jersey” – despite Kaine being a governor and senator from Virginia, not New Jersey.
