Pompeo: Cash Transfer to Iran is Reminiscent of the Iran-Contra Scandal

Statement

Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) released the following statement regarding new reports that $400 million in cash was sent to Iran at the same time American hostages were being released.

"The moment President Obama announced he was paying Iran $1.7 billion, I launched an inquiry--asking specific questions about this money. The State Department refused to answer me, but we have continued pushing, questioning officials in classified and unclassified settings. Thanks to the work of our independent press, we now have additional information that neither Iran nor the Obama administration wanted to reveal.

"Reports of the U.S. paying Iran $400 million in pallets of cash, using other currencies in order to circumvent American law, is something of Hollywood films--and is reminiscent of the Iran Contra scandal. Have we not learned we cannot trust the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism? To tell the American people that the payment of $1.7 billion on the same day as four American hostages were released was just coincidence insults our common sense and borders on lawlessness. The result? Three more Americans now sit languishing in Iranian prisons."

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