Who the fuck cares if it was paid in cash or in equivalent amount of cocaine - whose money was it? Ayotollah's gave US money and US gave it back to Ayotollahs - where do the 'citizens' and 'gays' come in? You just want to be outraged for no reason over something as simple as a REFUND. You have no points, just more bullshit.
Read up on some history while you are googling Thiesen for his neocon bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
This is what the cultists are lying about This court, called the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal, functioned as a kind of binding arbitration. To deal with cases, the involved parties could either negotiate a settlement out of court or take it to a panel made up of three US-appointed judges, three Iranian-appointed judges, and three neutral judges. The panel would then hear the case and issue a binding ruling. This process, as you might guess, was very, very slow. By the time Obama’s second term in office began, the tribunal still had not come to a ruling on the issue of the $400 million. Sometime afterward, the Associated Press’s Matt Lee and Bradley Klapper report, the US government apparently concluded that it was going to lose the case — and lose big: Iran was seeking $10 billion in today’s dollars. "US officials had expected a ruling on the Iranian claim from the tribunal any time, and feared a ruling that would have made the interest payments much higher," Lee and Klapper write. So the Obama administration decided to settle out of court, opening up negotiations with Iran on the terms of the settlement. It did this at the same time it was negotiating the nuclear deal and the return of four US citizens who had been detained by Iran more recently. However, the people working on the nuclear deal and the prisoner release were different from the team working on the court case around the weapons money — some of the latter group had been involved with the claims tribunal for years. By January 2016, the countries had struck a deal — the US would pay Iran $1.7 billion, which amounts to about $300 million in interest on top of the originally frozen assets (accounting for inflation). This settlement was announced the same day in January as Iran received its first round of sanctions relief from the Iran deal. The deal was paid in installments, with $400 million being handed over to Iran on the same day that the US prisoners were released (January 17). The next $1.3 billion, according to Solomon and Lee Wednesday’s report, was paid over the course of the next 19 days. The reason this was done in installments is that US law prevents the US government from giving Iran dollars, so the government had to scrape together foreign currency. Getting together large amounts of foreign cash is tough even for the US government — hence the short-term installment plan. So there you have it. The $1.3 billion payment, which sounds really shady out of context, was actually the end of a boring, decades-old international legal case totally unrelated to the hot-button nuclear and prisoner issues. https://www.vox.com/2016/9/7/12830688/us-iran-cash-payment-ransom
"Who the fuck cares" Thats exactly the opinion an obama cultist would take, the fact of the matter is Trump paid off no one, didnt bribe politicians, didnt pay anyone a fucking dime, didnt change a thing, so while you say "Who the fuck cares" what exactly is your problem with trumps negotiations?
So in your world, returning someone else's money is 'paying them'? And what Trump negotiation - what did NK give up in exchange for Trump agreeing to stop military exercises with SK?
In Iran, conservatives actually won before Rouhani, remember the guy before him? The conservative loud mouthed dolt? And they allow opposition candidates unlike mother Russia where people are killed for standing up to Putin.