Wire Transfer? Check? Cash? State Dept. Won’t Discuss ‘Mechanics’ of $1.3B Payment to Iran

President Obama told reporters three weeks ago that the U.S. had flown $400 million in cash to Iran last January because it could not send a check or wire the funds to the regime. The administration will not say how a much larger sum – $1.3 billion in interest – was paid around the same time. Read