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Senators Cruz & Lee think Obama's cash transfer was illegal.
Of course it was illegal. Transferring money from the US to Iran is illegal (but they didn't use dollars...) and exchanging money from one currency to another to avoid a US law is money laundering. Take whichever road you want, it was illegal. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Which brings me to my last point. The reason we had to give them cash is because we are so strict in maintaining sanction answers we don't have a banking relationships with Iran that we couldn't send them a check. We could not wire the money.
And it is not at all clear to me why it is that cash as opposed to a check or a wire transfer has made this into a news story. Maybe because it feels like some spy novel or you know, some crime novel. Because cash was exchanged.
The reason cash was exchanged is because we don't have banking with Iran. Which is part of the pressure we could apply to them, so they would close down a bunch of facilities that, as I remember, two years ago, three years ago, five years ago, was people's top fear and priority, that we make sure Iran doesn't have breakout nuclear capacity. They don't. This worked. - Barack Obama
It's legal because BO says it is? Originally Posted by TheDaliLamaFor obvious reasons, irrespective of any political beliefs regarding Cruz, the opinion of Cruz as a legal scholar carries more weight than Obaminable, whose "batting average" is embarrassingly low in the "legal department" (not to mention he's the one committing the crime [do we take criminal's word for the legality of their criminal acts?]).
Of course it was illegal. Transferring money from the US to Iran is illegal (but they didn't use dollars...) and exchanging money from one currency to another to avoid a US law is money laundering. Take whichever road you want, it was illegal. Originally Posted by JD BarleycornThank you Justice Barleycorn...