Tehran, Aug 6, IRNA - US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump backed off a false claim, admitting he had not seen a video of a $400 million payment being unloaded from a US plane in Iran, it was reported on Saturday.


In a rare reversal for Trump, who has stood by inaccurate or unproven claims previously, the Republican nominee in his Twitter account claimed that the video he saw was of the prisoner transfer, not the payment.

According to foreign media, the Republican nominee had claimed at rallies twice this week that such a video existed.

Politico Magazine wrote that Trump has claimed that he saw video footage of a $400 million US cash payment to Iran.

But what Trump had actually seen in news reports was video of three American prisoners who Iran had released arriving in Geneva, Switzerland.

By IRNA