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Duffy on Just Revealed $1.7 billion Cash Payment to Iran

Statement

Date: Sept. 6, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs

House Financial Services Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Sean Duffy (WI-07) released the following statement after it was revealed that the Administration paid Iran, the leading State sponsor of terrorism, an additional $1.3 billion in interest on top of the widely reported $400 million dollars -- all in cash:

"This new revelation raises additional questions and underscores the need for Administration officials to answer them at Thursday's hearing. Today's briefing was conducted at the staff level without any of the American people's representatives in Congress and much of what was discussed was unclassified. There is no reason why the Administration shouldn't answer questions in an open setting about why the United States sent more than a billion dollars to Iran in cold hard cash."


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