By
Joseph
Klein
Iran
is receiving $550 million of its frozen oil revenues under the interim nuclear
deal the Obama administration has pushed forward with Iran. The United States "helped
facilitate the transfer" of the funds to Iran through unnamed foreign
banks according to Reuters, citing a U.S. Treasury spokeswoman. Iran's
official IRNA news agency has reported that the $550 million already has been
transferred to Iran's Central Bank account in Switzerland. This transfer is
just the first installment of the $4.2 billion of blocked Iranian oil
revenues held abroad that the U.S. has committed to help unfreeze. [more...]
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