Gasparino repeats a long-debunked talking point that Obama and Biden 'financed' Iran with cash. (Note: The original claim about $1.7 billion of Iran's own frozen assets appears to be correct based on available sources.) returned as part of a Hague Tribunal settlement over a pre-1979 arms deal — not US taxpayer money. There's no documented link between those funds and any specific Iranian weapons program, and the Biden administration's 2023 $6 billion prisoner-swap funds were frozen again before Iran could spend them.