The Wall Street Journal's exposure of Obama's Air Tehran operation which smuggled pallets of cash to Iranian terrorists has produced outrage. Unfortunately it's mostly from Republicans as Democrats maintain solidarity with the White House's criminal behavior which has put Americans at risk while funding terrorism.
Here are some key details from the WSJ's Air Tehran story.
The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.
Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.
The $400 million was paid in foreign currency because any transaction with Iran in U.S. dollars is illegal under U.S. law.
Americans, actual Americans, are not happy at all. Trump condemned Hillary's involvement in the process.
Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton over a report that the U.S. secretly ferried $400 million in cash to Iran as four American prisoners were freed earlier this year.
The “incompetent” Clinton, who was secretary of State earlier in Obama’s term, “was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran,” Trump said on Twitter early on Wednesday morning, hours after the story broke in The Wall Street Journal.
“Scandal!”
Other Republicans have quickly stepped up.
“The logistics of this payment -- literally delivering a plane full of cash to evade U.S. law -- shows yet again the extraordinary lengths the Obama administration will go to accommodate Iran, all while hiding the facts from Congress and the American people,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said in a statement. “Hundreds of millions in the pockets of a terrorist regime means a more dangerous region, period. And paying ransom only puts more American lives in jeopardy.”
"Paying ransom to kidnappers puts Americans even more at risk," Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., said in a statement. "While Americans were relieved by Iran’s overdue release of illegally imprisoned American hostages, the White House’s policy of appeasement has led Iran to illegally seize more American hostages."
Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican and an outspoken critic of the Iran nuclear deal, accused Mr. Obama of paying “a $1.7 billion ransom to the ayatollahs for U.S. hostages.”
“This break with long-standing U.S. policy put a price on the head of Americans, and has led Iran to continue its illegal seizures” of Americans, he told the Journal.
But Obama cares more about appeasing Iran.