Fox News: Obama Admin Paid Iran $1.3B Two Days After $400M Cash Transfer

ROSEN: "For the first time, the State Department provided a timeline on when it made this $1.3 billion interest payment to Iran. Following a series of explosive reports from “The Wall Street Journal,” the Obama Administration this month has sought to rebut charges that it paid ransom for five Americans released from Iranian captivity back in January. Even as senior U.S. Officials admit they withheld the $400 million until they received word that the hostages were being set free. A linkage of the prisoner release to the payments that the State Department had previously denied. The Obama Administration confirmed on January 19th, a treasury department account, known as the judgment fund, was used to send Iran an additional 13 payments, each for $99,999,999.99, or roughly $100 million to satisfy the interest that Washington negotiated with Iran. The total pay out of $1.7 billion was lower than the judgment taxpayers might have been forced to pay if a judgment had prevailed. The State Department refused to provide additional information about why hard foreign currency was used for the initial payment or why there was a 14th payment in the amount of $10.4 million."