>>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.
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>>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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So what you are saying is that , they weren't receiving the money until the hostages were released. What am I missing here.