State Dept. Won’t Deny Iran Can Spend $100 Billion from Nuke Deal Any Way It Wants

State Department Won’t Deny That Iran Can Spend $100 Billion From Nuclear Deal Any Way It Wants (The Washington Free Beacon)

The State Department could not deny Tuesday that Iran will be able to spend the $100 billion it receives from the nuclear deal however it wants, despite insisting for weeks that Iran will only have access to half of that money.

When a reporter asked if there was a “binding parameter of the nuclear accord,” which said that half of the money was unavailable, State Department spokesman John Kirby dodged the question and said Iran would only “have access” to $50 billion.

“Our Treasury Department has done the analysis and has determined that … roughly half of the unfrozen assets are already spoken for and will be unavailable to them to use in manners in which they would choose,” Kirby said.