The claims in this post contain major factual errors and misleading context. For starters, the Clinton-uranium claim appears to confuse two separate issues entirely. Clinton did not give uranium to Iran; rather, she served on a government board that approved a transfer of ownership of uranium mines, not a transfer of uranium itself. The uranium transaction referenced was the Uranium One deal with Russia, not Iran. According to NPR:
The Russian state nuclear company, Rosatom, bought Canadian mining company Uranium One in 2010. Uranium One had, and still has, uranium mining rights in the United States. For that reason, President Barack Obama's administration had to approve the deal. In a unanimous vote, nine U.S. government departments and agencies signed off. All are part of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and included Clinton's State Department. By all accounts, she was not actively involved.
The Obama payment did occur, but again, the context is misrepresented. As reported by the Associated Press, "the $1.7 billion paid out to Iran was the settlement of a decades-old arbitration claim between the U.S. and Iran"—not a gift for nuclear programs.
Finally, the Biden figure is accurate but omits crucial context about restrictions and the nature of unfrozen assets versus new payments. The U.S. issued waivers allowing international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds from South Korea to a restricted account in Qatar as part of a deal securing the release of five Americans held in Iranian prisons. Importantly, the money had tight humanitarian-related limitations on its use. By omitting this crucial context, the post makes it appear as if Biden unfroze the assets arbitrarily. According to a White House Press Briefing:
In connection with the exchange, we are also moving $6 billion in Iranian funds previously held in South Korea — in a restricted account in South Korea to a restricted account in Qatar, where they will be available for a limited — a very limited category of humanitarian transactions. That is food, medicine, medical devices, and agricultural products only.
The post appears designed to create a misleading narrative linking three administrations to Iranian nuclear funding without providing proper context about the actual circumstances of these financial transactions.
