Aug 3, 2016 – The four hostages — which included a Washington Post reporter — were freed on Jan. 17 and at the time Revolutionary Guard Gen. Reza Naghdi boasted that Washington had bowed to pressure from Tehran.
“Taking this much money back was in return for the release of the American spies,” he told Iranian state media, according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported the cash shipment.

A secretive exchange of funds to Iranian authorities was not a ransom payment made in order to free Americans held in Iran, the White House insisted Wednesday.
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