Looks like Obama wasn't the first.
http://time.com/4441046/400-million-...stage-history/
Originally Posted by wordup666
the $400 million dated back to the 1979 hostage crisis. so how 'bout one of you libtard Einsteins tell me why interest was paid on
frozen assets? did the US invest these frozen assets and thus profit on it? i doubt it. if that money had been spent in it's intended way, for US aircraft, would Iran have paid the US interest on those aircraft? nope. so why did Obama, fearing some possible 10 billion ruling by the Hague cave in and give Iran interest on the 400 million? especially when nations such as Iran and China regularly ignore such rulings? what exactly would the Hague have done about it? invade the US? bahaaaaa
as example, China recently lost a dispute over some of the south china sea islands with the Philippines under international maritime law and immediately thumbed its chink nose at it. had it gone in favor of China (not likely) they would have hailed it as a justified and threatened to invade.
this total of some 1.7 billion is just another example of Obama not favoring the best interests of the nation he was supposed to represent. note i didn't say the free world. he wasn't elected leader of the free world. he was elected the president of the US.
Trump knows who elected him and why. if you libtards want to scream that somehow diminishes the US in the eyes of the world .. then fuck the world.