Congress Floods Administration With Demands For Details on $400m Iran Payment

Lawmakers are burying the Obama administration with requests for information about a $400 million payment to Iran last January, despite administration attempts to stonewall the public on details of the payment.

The U.S. delivered $400 million in foreign currency, stacked on pallets in an unmarked plane, to the Islamic Republic in January, around the same time that Iran released three American hostages. Critics say the payment was for ransom, while administration officials have claimed that the timing of the transaction was “coincidental.” The payment to the Islamic Republic is the first installment of a $1.7 billion legal settlement for a decades-old arms deal gone awry.