Iran releases video showing the $400 million pallets of cash

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IRAN: A new video emerged Friday that purportedly shows a US payment of $400 million worth of cash delivered to Iran on the day Tehran released several American prisoners in January.

The revelation of an Iranian documentary that shows the money on pallets in a warehouse comes hours after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walked back an earlier claim that he had seen tape of the delivery, acknowledging Friday morning that the footage he watched was actually the American captives arriving in Geneva.

Trump’s repeated reference to having seen the video was widely questioned, since at the time no such footage had been identified.

The discovery of the video from an Iranian documentary in January, which apparently shows footage of President Barack Obama, the prisoner release and cash on pallets, reignited the controversy over the US payment and Trump’s statements. The video narration claims that the cash was linked with the release.
The latest wrinkle is bound to fuel critics of the administration who have accused Obama of providing ransom to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of four US prisoners. A fifth American was released separately.
Trump initially claimed to have seen video of the cash being unloaded from a US aircraft in Iran and repeated the assertion on Thursday even though a campaign aide had told The Washington Post earlier that it was actually footage of a different event.
Trump then said via Twitter Friday that he had only seen the American prisoners arriving in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Obama administration contradicts that the payment was related to the release of the U.S. hostages, even though payment was made on the same day Iran freed the hostages.

(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:americasfreedomfighters.com)

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