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On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Friday, August 5, 2016
President Barack Obama talks about the war on terrorism and efforts to degrade and destroy the Islamic State group, during a news conference at the Pentagon in
Washington, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Obama Denies $400M Payment to Iran was RansomÂ
JOSH LEDERMAN payment to Iran was ran- has allowed for progress on to the Iranian government failed military equipment
MATTHEW LEE som to secure the release other matters. in January, at the same deal dating to the 1970s,
Associated Press of four Americans jailed in “This wasn’t some nefarious time the nuclear deal was before the Islamic revolu-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- Tehran. deal,†Obama said during settled and the Americans tion in 1979.
dent Barack Obama vigor- He defended the transac- a news conference at the were released. The pay-
ously denied on Thursday tion as evidence that the Pentagon. ment was part of a de- Continued on Page 4
that a $400 million cash nuclear accord with Iran The money was delivered cades-old dispute over a