re: True or False, the money Iran got was their own money "released"

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So instead, the U.S. negotiators convinced Iran to move the dispute from arbitration to a private settlement. The two sides reached an agreement in mid-2015, at the same time as the U.S. and Iran reached a comprehensive pact on curtailing Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. The financial deal called for the U.S. to refund $1.7 billion to Tehran, consisting of the original $400 million contract for military equipment, plus $1.3 billion in interest.

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This is my understanding....we agreed to international arbitration and were facing having to pay-out a lot more. So Obama folded the remittance as part of the nuclear agreement. People seem to want to ignore that an international tribunal was expected to rule in favor of Iran on this matter.