Jan 25, 2026
Most ViewedDid Obama fund Iran?
The short answer: $150 billion as a unilateral grant, but it did negotiate an agreement that unfroze Iranian assets and involved discrete cash transfers and settlements that critics call de facto fund...
US Payment to Iran
The United States paid $1.7 billion to Iran, coinciding with the release of American detainees, with disputed causation and motives.
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2 resultsJan 14, 2026
Most ViewedHow did the $1.7 billion cash transfer to Iran affect US-Iran relations in 2016?
The $1.7 billion cash transfer in January–February 2016 was formally a settlement of a decades‑old Iran‑U.S. claims tribunal case and was timed alongside the release of detained Americans, a linkage t...