President Obama did not unilaterally “fund” Iran with $150 billion in U.S. taxpayer money; the JCPOA restored Iran’s access to some of its own frozen assets (roughly tens of billions by many estimates) and the administration settled a separate $1.7 billion arbitration claim that included cash transfers, which critics call ransom or funding and defenders say were legal settlements and returns of Iranian monies [1] [2] [3] [4]. Public records and reporting document the transfers and licenses that caused controversy, but do not sustain the simple claim that Obama gave Iran $150 billion of U.S. appropriated funds for weapons [1] [2] [12].