Former Iranian MP Alireza Zakani reveals: “Obama Administration Gave Us $1.7 Billion with the first $400 million in cash in suitcases
Alireza Zakani, a member of the Iranian Majles from 2004 to 2016, said in a recent interview on Ofogh TV (Iran) that during the JCPOA negotiations, Iran also negotiated the issue of its frozen Iranian assets that had been held by the US.
Zakani said that Iran had told the US that a prisoner exchange had not been sufficient and demanded to get its frozen funds with “reasonable interest.”
He said that the U.S. agreed and delivered $1.7 billion in four payments – the first of which had been a payment of $400 million in cash in a suitcase.
Zakani added that the nuclear issue was the least valuable of all the issues that were being negotiated w the Americans, which he said included terrorism, regional affairs, defense, security, human rights, and financial assets.
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