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October 5, 2016

The U.S. Is Funding Slaughter in Syria and Chaos in Iraq

Cash for criminals.

Amid revelations that the U.S. transferred $1.7 billion to Iran at the beginning of the year, the White House has insisted (a) that the payments were intended to settle a 30-year-old dispute between the two countries over an aborted arms deal and (b) that the money was transferred in cash rather than by wire “precisely because,” in the president’s own words, “we are so strict in maintaining sanctions [that] we could not wire the money.” Mark Dubowitz and Annie Fixler disprove the explanation and trace the consequences of the transfer:

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