A Lebanese security official said that the American embassy has been pushing for prisoner deals because "they make Trump look good."
The US released a convicted Hezbollah financier from federal prison last month in an ongoing series of prisoner swaps between the US and Iran, according to a Lebanese security official and a senior Lebanese politician who spoke to Insider.
The deal for his release was first reported by Reuters. It was initially described as a"purely judicial" humanitarian move over concerns he might contract COVID. Story continues'The US government spends a decade building a case that he's probably the largest single funder of Hezbollah's operations ... and lets him go'The release of Tajideen, just over a year into his sentence, was criticized by a Belgian security official who had helped investigate the Tajideen's extensive empire of business holdings, which span Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
"Then the US government spends a decade building a case that he's probably the largest single funder of Hezbollah's operations, arrests him in Morocco, extradites him to the US, convicts him and lets him go," the Belgian official said. A senior Lebanese political figure, who refused to be named speaking about intelligence matters involving Iran and the United States, said that there has been an ongoing effort by the head of Lebanon's General Security Directorate, General Abbas Ibrahim, to broker swaps between the US and Iran of prisoners.
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