Iran puts its foot down, in the water
 

https://americanmilitarynews.com/201...rce=foramerica

I wonder how much fuel and weapons they bought with Obama money?

And why was that money transferred via pallets of cash?

Why not just a wire transfer?

Obama doing it mobster-style?

Couldn't be wired.

The Feds can't wire money? Really?

And why is that?

This sounds so familiar. Didn't we hear this from a middle-eastern dictat... I mean democratically elected leader... a couple of decades back?

Oh, yes. Then they found him hiding in a hole in the ground.

Because we don't have banking relations with the Iranian Government.

This issue came up again when some of the funds to be returned in an Omani Bank were to be repatriated back to Iran. The plan called for a US institution to convert the Rials into Dollars which could then be converted to Euros.

It was a big controversy as *GASP* Obama lied and actually did try to give the Iranians access to the US financial system. He did this by asking two different banks to process the conversion but both banks turned him down.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/the-...al-system.html

We don't have banking relations with the Iranian Government? :lol:

OK then.

The biggest baddest mofo's on the block (THE USA) couldn't simply flip a switch one little time to let a wire transfer go through to a bank in Iran?

I don't buy it. Not for one second.

Again, I'll ask...why the pallets full of cash?

For that matter, why couldn't the Federal Reserve have done the dastardly deed by wire?

To pay off a 40 year old settlement for arms shipments that was negotiated through the IUSCT.

I just gave an example... used by right-wing media folks to label Obama a liar about one thing that's conveniently ignored when trying to argue something else... in this case the plane of cash.

Iran had about $30 Billion unfroze as a result of the JCPOA yet we still harp on this plane of cash.

That article you linked to wasn't about the actual delivery of cash to Iran...it looks like it was for another deal/situation/money conversion/whatever.

Did I read that right? I mean, I'm an idiot first and foremost, so you will have to forgive me.

Thus, I will keep asking my question until I get an answer.

Why did we have to send them actual CASH MONEY in the 21st century?

There HAS to be a reason for this other than "oh well, we couldn't find any way to wire them the money, so we spent all this EXTRA money loading it on planes and helicopters and whatever and essentially air dropping it over there."

Come on man...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ob...u-s-prisoners/

Wires don't really work that way. You need institutions with relationships to do it. Domestically we use the Fedwire system. Internationally you typically will operate with the central bank of that country or finding intermediaries to run the wires for you.

If you don't have a relationship with that central bank AND none of your intermediaries do either... a plane of cash is honestly probably the simplest solution... or gold... or whatever valuable...

This was literally the issue with repatriating the Omani money.

I've covered this ad nauseum...

Iran DOESN'T have access to the American Financial System.

That example I gave is a time Obama tried to give them access and was denied by two banks.

Your flip the switch on and off is exactly what they tried there. He was castigated for attempting to grant Iranians access to the American financial system in that instance. Now though instead of a plane full of cash we should coordinate with the Iranian Central Bank and the Federal Reserve... same outcry...

A plane full of cash is just easier.

100 years ago these same things were done... just with ships and gold.

Wait...what?

The TREASURY DEPARTMENT...executive branch...Obama head of executive branch...this much I'm smart enough to figure out on my own....

No way in the world Obama had the power to tell the Treasury dept to make this one wee exception...nope...executive order couldn't achieve something like that? Anything? Something? Bueller? Mueller?

No, better we spend a shitload of money to get these guys actual ducats...mullah...cash-eesh...greenbacks...

What's the real reason boys? Tell me the real reason we went with actual cash.

I know you guys are smarter than I am, so you must know the actual answer.