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13058823, This isn't an admission that they were paying for the release, though.
Posted by stravinskian, Thu Aug-18-16 05:12 PM
It was money that we've owed Iran for decades, and that we agreed to pay in part because an international court would have forced us to pay anyway, in an amount that we couldn't have negotiated down.
The admission here is that while the agreement to repay that debt was separate from the release of the prisoners, they held the money until after the prisoners were released, so that they had a means to respond if Iran reneged on that agreement.
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