No, the $1.7 billion Obama forked over to Iran wasn't 'its own money'

Another Obama legacy myth heads for the scrap heap of history.

By Monica Showalter February 22, 2018

When President Obama's official portrait by Kehinde Wiley came out, its easily manipulated vector graphics made it an easy target forparodies and satires. The funniest one, passed around from viewer to viewer, on Facebook, was by an unknown satirist..............It's funny because it says something so true about President Obama and his much vaunted Iran deal with the mullahs, which is the single foreign policy element of his legacy he and his minions defend hardest.

The mullahs rolled in cash as a result of rolling Obama and his gullible team over the deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for some sort of legacy.  They shook $1.7 billion out of him, based on $400 million in funds the old shah of Iran had deposited in the U.S. for military purchases.  After that, they made off like bandits with the loot................More