Secretly-ish - it was announced publicly 7 months prior (Jan 2016) and it was the first instalment of a legal settlement, not just some random or ransom payment.

Obviously Republicans decried it with bad faith bullshit because reality and sanity don't matter to them.

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hakrgrl 11 hours ago | parent [-]

"reality and sanity"? The reality is the US gave them cash to improve their living standards and enrich their country, not their uranium.

With that money they chose to massacre their own people and fund terrorism across the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

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nixon_why69 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Again, it was legally owed money, a decades-old arbitration claim from some arms deal.

Now we're spending a multiple of that literally every day for this war. And screwing the global economy in the process. Is this a better deal?

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zimpenfish 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> With that money[...]

Delivered in August 2016.

> ...they chose to massacre their own people...

In 2025-26 according to your link.

I dunno, that's a big chronological gap to bridge for implying a causal relationship to work.

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mrbombastic 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Account created 52 days ago and working over time ever since to defend trump and the regime. No submissions. Color me skeptical.

	▲	hakrgrl 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Skeptical of what, exactly?