In a word, yes.
The Joint Plan of
Action (JCPOA), an interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, was signed
on November 24, 2013 by the P5+1 countries of Great Britain, Russia, France,
China and Germany in Geneva, Switzerland.
On January 21, 2016, The
Associated Press covered the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. They spoke with then-Secretary
of State John Kerry on the sidelines regarding the secretly airlifted $400
million in ransom payments for four Americans held hostage in Tehran and an
extra $1.8 billion in interest payments.
Kerry said, “I think
that some of it will end up in the hands of the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary
Guard Corps) or other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists.”
It was only through the
reporting of the Wall
Street Journal that Americans even learned of the pallets of cash flown
into Switzerland aboard an unmarked chartered aircraft on wooden pallets. The money was converted into Euros, Swiss
francs and other currencies and then flown into Tehran in the dark of night.
The hardliners in the
IRGC proved they could get more from the United States than the Iranian
diplomats who negotiated the nuclear deal.
Obama was a patsy.
In his address
to the nation yesterday President Trump said, “Iran’s hostilities substantially
increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013, and they were
given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash. Instead of
saying ‘thank you’ to the United States, they chanted ‘death to America.’
In fact, they chanted ‘death to America’ the day the agreement was signed.”
“Then, Iran went on a
terror spree, funded by the money from the deal, and created hell in Yemen,
Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The missiles fired last night at
us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last
administration. The regime also greatly tightened the reins on their own
country, even recently killing 1,500 people at the many protests that are
taking place all throughout Iran.”
Thankfully, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei’s boastful “slap in the face” after Iran fired missiles at U.S.
troop bases in Iraq overnight on Tuesday turned out to be embarrassingly impotent. Iran managed to kill more people during
Soleimani’s state funeral than it’s “severe revenge”,
