MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The nation’s Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi told RIA Novosti earlier today that Washington had airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran seven months ago as part of the deal on Iran’s nuclear program. Simultaneously, sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear research were scrapped on January 16.
Iran’s top national security official said the announcement that Iran had fulfilled its commitment under the nuclear pact as millions in cash were reportedly flown by an unmarked cargo plane to Tehran was a mere coincidence.
This confirmed last Wednesday’s statement by White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who said the payment had aimed to reimburse funds the Iranian government paid in 1979 for military equipment that had never been provided.
