After the Obama Administration made what appeared to be a number of huge cash payments as ransom money to release four American prisoners, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation to prevent future such payments being made without legislative oversight.

President Obama's disastrous nuclear deal with Iran was sweetened with an illicit ransom payment and billions of dollars for the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism - all done in secret, hidden from the American people and from Congress.

After the Obama administration transferred $400 million in cash to Iran, raising numerous questions relating to its purpose and whether it was a ransom payment for detained American hostages, House Republicans vowed to work to prevent another such ransom payment in the future.

Aaron David Miller, currently vice president at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, slammed the Obama administration for paying what appears to be an obvious ransom, thereby demonstrating its weakening influence in the Middle East.

A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent US history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.

In what appears to be an inexplicable move, the Obama administration seems to be trying to appease Iran by giving the Islamic Republic vast sums of money while trying to deceive the American public as well as the rest of the world.

Andrew C. McCarthy, a former Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, cautioned against obfuscating a much larger issue surrounding last week’s revelation of President Obama’s 'ransom-for-hostages' payment to Tehran.

Following reports that the Obama administration hurriedly transferred $400 million in cash to Iran around the time that five US captives were released, Iranian television broadcast images of pallets of cash used for the alleged ransom.