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On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
This was Iran's money. The Shah sent $400 million in the 1970s. We held on to it.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Sherman clarifies that the payment to Iran was a settlement of its own funds.

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