State Department Defends 17-billion Settlement with Iran
Excerpt:
The settlement relates to an arms deal between Iran and the United States that fell apart after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
Iran had been seeking money from a trust fund related to the deal, as well as interest for more than 35 years, according to the letter.
In June 2014, Iran raised the issue of bringing its claims to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, which was set up after the Iran hostage crisis.
In addition to the trust fund claim, Iran also wanted architectural drawings and fossils from the U.S. The United States also settled those claims, Frifield wrote, with the drawings going to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and the fossils to Iran’s Ministry of the Environment.
The White House has previously said Iran was pushing for $7 billion or $8 billion for the trust fund claim.
The settlement payment reached was a combination of $400 million in the trust fund and $1.3 billion in interest.
“If Iran’s claim for the trust fund balance and interest had gone to decision in the tribunal, the United States could well have faced significant exposure in the billions of dollars,” Frifield wrote. “Iran was of course seeking very high rates of interest for a period over three decades. We were able to secure a favorable resolution on the interest owed to Iran and avoid a much larger tribunal award against us, saving the U.S. taxpayers a significant amount of money.”
Iran still has some large claims against the United States, while the United States has a “significant” counterclaim against Iran, Frifield added.
State Department asserts privilege against Benghazi committee 7/1/15
The State Department has informed the House Select Committee on Benghazi that it is withholding "a small number" of documents from investigators on the basis of "important executive branch institutional interests." The statement, made in a letter from Assistant Secretary of State Julia Frifield to committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, amounts to a de facto claim of some form of executive branch privilege.
Frifield made the claim in a letter turning over 3,600 pages of Benghazi-related documents from three current and former administration officials: Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan, and Cheryl Mills. Rice, a former United Nations ambassador, is now national security adviser, while Sullivan and Mills are close aides to Hillary Clinton who worked at the department when she was secretary of state
Experience
• Senior Advisor for Global Affairs
Johns Hopkins University
February 2017 – Present (1 month)---
• Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
US Department of State
October 2013 – January 2017 (3 years 4 months)
Principal adviser to the Secretary of State on Congressional affairs. Coordinate State Department interaction with Congress. Develop and implement Congressional strategies to achieve Obama Administration foreign policy priorities.---
• Chief of Staff
US Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
2003 – 2013 (10 years)
Chief political, communications, policy and management adviser to Chairwoman of Senate Appropriations Committee and Dean of bipartisan women Senators.---
• Legislative Director
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
1998 – 2003 (5 years)
Principal policy adviser to US Senator. Developed strategy to implement Senator's policy objectives. Hired, trained and supervised legislative staff.---
• Legislative Assistant
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
1995 – 1998 (3 years)
Advised Senator on foreign policy, defense and intelligence issues. Staffed Senator on Foreign Operations and Defense Appropriations Subcommittees.---
• Legislative Assistant
Senator Harris Wofford (D-PA)
1992 – 1994 (2 years)
• Special Assistant
Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
1989 – 1992 (3 years)
view the rest of the comments →
Littleredcorvette ago
Julia Frifield Lives here: 1616 19th St NW Apt xx, DC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_Legislative_Affairs https://archive.is/cXCYY
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/frifield-julia https://archive.is/8j0A7
This site might be useful to look at: Clinton Email Investigation Timeline-- a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Julia Frifield” http://www.thompsontimeline.com/tag/julia-frifield/ https://archive.is/j2tQU
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/274086-state-department-defends-17-billion-settlement-with-iran https://archive.is/YCYSF
State Department Defends 17-billion Settlement with Iran
-
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-asserts-privilege-against-benghazi-committee/article/2567400 https://archive.is/e0ury
From LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-frifield-a6ab979
jangles ago
http://www.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2001/4/29/ARAB3.HTM http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/192
http://documents.mx/documents/the-protocols-of-the-learned-elders-of-islam-sira-11.html
https://www.memri.org/reports/qadhafi-cia-and-israeli-mossad-injected-aids-libyan-children
Egypt –“ Qadhafi added that this act, which is a malicious sex crime, reveals the ugly face of those who introduced the AIDS virus to Africa in order to exhaust its strength and deplete its resources with the intention of gaining control over Africa. He remarked that Africa has turned into a market of high demand for pharmaceutical and other AIDS-treatment medical products. He claimed that international monopolies strive to continue disseminating the AIDS virus as long as possible in order to double their profits from sales of pharmaceutical products, which inhibit the effects of the disease.” http://www.bta.bg/site/libya/en/10foreignmedia.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080609201322/ http://www.bta.bg/site/libya/en/10foreignmedia.htm delete and archived more on aids Bulgaria-bengazi https://web.archive.org/web/20081121060036/http://lemegalodon.net/a4061-libye-six-bulgares-accuses-d-etre-a-l-origi.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071208114537/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/63760DFC-7406-409C-832F-F98A1F9F9894.htm
Hajjuj, who were condemned to death in Tripoli 19 December 2006, on charges of spreading HIV-AIDS amonth hundreds of children in a Benghazi hospital. The Kadhafi Foundation said 10 July 2007 it had reached a compensation deal with the families of children infected with the AIDS virus that would resolved the case of six foreign medics now on death row in the case. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/combination-of-file-pictures-shows-bulgarian-nurses-valia-news-photo/138078573#combination-of-file-pictures-shows-bulgarian-nurses-valia-georgieva-picture-id138078573