>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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