David E. Sanger
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And as soon as it comes in and there's nothing in the agreement that restricts where that money goes.
Well, not right away, Natalie, but very soon.
They begin to get access to some of that $24, $25 billion in frozen assets, Iranian money that has been locked up in financial institutions for years.
And they've been deeply interested in getting it back.
It is the priority that you hear most often.
So let me take you back to the wording of this memorandum of understanding.
There's a hidden kind of phrase in here in which the agreement says that the money can be fully usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by Iran's central bank.
Well, there are a lot of beneficiaries in Iran who are designated as terrorists or they're on sanctions lists.
And this seems to suggest that they, too, could be recipients.
The only string attached is that administration officials say that it will be doled out with performance, or as the president says, with good behavior.
But it's earned a lot of criticism.
And why is that?
Because for 11 years, many Republicans, including Donald Trump,
have been going after the Obama administration for returning $1.7 billion to the Iranians back in 2015.
But $1.7 billion, big as it is, really pales in comparison to $24 billion.
And that's to say nothing of an even bigger pot of money that is described vaguely in the agreement.
And that would be a $300 billion economic development fund for Iran.
Well, no one's quite sure.
The U.S.
says it's not coming from American taxpayers, but that it would get out of the way if others wanted to go invest in Iran.
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