GOP senator calls Obama ‘drug dealer in chief’ over Iran payment
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk (R) called President Obama the “drug dealer in chief” over the administration’s $400 million Iran payment that many called a ransom.
{mosads}”We can’t have the president of the United States acting like the drug dealer in chief,” Kirk said to the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill.
“Giving clean packs of money to a … state sponsor of terror. Those 500-euro notes will pop up across the Middle East. …. We’re going to see problems in multiple [countries] because of that money given to them.”
The $400 million payment to Iran was part of a previously announced settlement to resolve a dispute from an arms deal that occurred in the 1970s.
U.S. officials wouldn’t allow Iranians to take the money until they released three American prisoners, causing critics to call the arrangement a ransom.
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