alt Hacker NewsSecretly-ish - it was announced publicly 7 months prior (Jan 2016) and it was the first instalment of a legal settlement, not just some random or ransom payment.
Obviously Republicans decried it with bad faith bullshit because reality and sanity don't matter to them.
"reality and sanity"? The reality is the US gave them cash to improve their living standards and enrich their country, not their uranium.
With that money they chose to massacre their own people and fund terrorism across the region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres