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The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-…
this is more interesting than all the reality tv verbal spats. less so on the narrative if the payout included hostages and more so on the money involved, and how it was decided and how it all went down. the whole politics of it and it dating back so far, way it was phrased. seems like the press could write a lot more about this.