A few weeks ago I showed that the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal had rejected, in July 2011, reconsideration of the 1981 claim by Iran for compensation from aircraft not delivered ($2.2 billion was the total stated then). I have been unable to find any record of it being considered again. Yet Secretary Kerry found that it was necessary to pay the terrorist-sponsoring regime in Iran $1.7 billion for that specific claim.
While not looking into the validity of the $1.7 billion claim by Iran for compensation, the Financial Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives did hold a hearing entitled "Fueling Terror: The Dangers of Ransom Payments to Iran" on Thursday, September 8, 2016.
The first panel of the hearing had Obama administration officials answering questions from Republican members of the committee, while, in a typical Washington, D.C. partisan fashion, the Democrat members of the Committee each took their apportioned time to attack Republican members of the committee and decry the hearing as being simply a political attack on President Obama.
