Obama in Early August: We Sent Cash to Iran Because ‘We Couldn’t Send Them a Check And We Could Not Wire The Money’

President Obama told reporters on August 4 that the U.S. had flown $400 million in cash to Iran last January because it could not send a check or wire the funds to the regime. Now questions are being asked about how a much larger sum – $1.3 billion in interest – was paid around the same time.