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The Obama administration went out of its way in early 2016 to help Iran recoup previously sanctioned oil revenue stranded in an overseas account after the nuclear deal went into effect and actively misled Congress regarding those efforts, according to the results of a nearly two-year Republican investigation released Wednesday.
The majority report of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations comes as President Trump, who scorned the nuclear agreement from its inception, last month ended U.S. participation in what he called a “horrible, one-sided deal.”
By lifting certain sanctions in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activity, “this disastrous deal gave this [Iranian] regime — and it’s a regime of great terror — many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash — a great embarrassment to me as a citizen and to all citizens of the United States,” Trump said in announcing the withdrawal.
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But the unfreezing of Iran’s U.S. accounts would be the end of it, the Obama administration said at the time. Both before and after the deal was implemented, officials repeatedly told Congress that Iran, under remaining non-nuclear sanctions, would have no access whatsoever to the U.S. financial system or institutions.
The subcommittee believes it has found at least one example where that was not the case and where President Barack Obama’s Treasury and State departments went out of their way to bend the rules for Iran.
The report chronicles the previously unpublished saga of Bank Muscat in the Persian Gulf state of Oman, which, as the agreement was implemented in January 2016, found itself holding $5.7 billion belonging to Tehran. The money was payment from countries that purchased Iranian oil under a partial, pre-deal easing of sanctions.
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