A draft US-Iran agreement reportedly includes a £224 billion ($300 billion) investment fund for Iran's reconstruction, with officials avoiding the term 'reparations.' The deal has not yet been signed by President Trump.
What exactly was paid: $1.7 billion, not $150 billion
The specific sum at issue was about $1.7 billion: the U.S. agreed to settle a claim for $400 million in principal that Iran had paid the United States before the 1979 revolution, plus roughly $1.3 billion in accumulated interest and arbitration adjustments, which together were delivered in 2016 [1][3][7]. Claims that the Obama administration “gave Iran $150 billion” are inaccurate: that larger figure conflates Iran’s overall frozen assets abroad and repeated political rhetoric, but is not what the U.S. treasury paid as a settlement in 2016 [6][8].
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/how-much-money-did-obama-send-to-iran-and-why-24d82a
What exactly was paid: $1.7 billion, not $150 billion
The specific sum at issue was about $1.7 billion: the U.S. agreed to settle a claim for $400 million in principal that Iran had paid the United States before the 1979 revolution, plus roughly $1.3 billion in accumulated interest and arbitration adjustments, which together were delivered in 2016 [1][3][7]. Claims that the Obama administration “gave Iran $150 billion” are inaccurate: that larger figure conflates Iran’s overall frozen assets abroad and repeated political rhetoric, but is not what the U.S. treasury paid as a settlement in 2016 [6][8].