Barack Obama sending $1.7 billion in cash to Iran in 2016 has become a major talking point amid the ongoing conflict with Iran. On Tuesday, speaking to the media from the White House, Trump reiterated that Obama purportedly dropped cash on a Boeing 757 aircraft.
As people revisit the contexts of Obama and Biden sending money to Iran, a baseless hoax in doing rounds on social media. It claims that Barack Obama has purportedly hired a team of nine criminal defense lawyers, fearing a potential backlash from the Trump administration over the cash transfer to Iran. However, Ht.com can confirm that the claims are false.
No reports suggest that the federal authorities are taking legal action against Obama for the cash transfer in January 2016. Obama, or his team, has also not confirmed anything around lawyering up, and claims that he is in trouble over it are false.
For instance, here’s a post that got over 2 million views on X:
Obama transferred $1.7 billion to Iran in January 2016 as part of settlement for a failed pre-1979 arms deal. $400 million was delivered in cash by plane, while rest of the $1.3 billion was the interest accumulated on the amount since the 1970s.
The claims resurfaced after Trump spoke extensively and in detail about the cash transfer at the Oval Office on Tuesday.
“The deal that Obama made giving them everything, including plane loads of cash… It was a Boeing 757,” Trump said. “It was two of them, loaded. They took out all the seats. It was loaded with green cash… It was in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC.
“They got all the cash from all the banks… and they flew it to Iran. I never knew a President had that power.”
This story is being updated.
