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		</div><p>Donald Trump has made a rare admission that he was wrong &#8211; in claiming he saw a video of a US cash payment going to Iran.</p>
<p>On the campaign trail this week, the Republican nominee has been dramatically describing a video he says shows the US paying off Iran as part of a deal to release US sailors from Iranian custody, but there is no evidence such a tape exists.</p>
<p>Early on Friday, Mr Trump appeared to finally acknowledge his mistake, tweeting: &#8220;The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400m in cash going to Iran!&#8221;</p>
<p>The US paid that money to Tehran in January, in a publicly announced settlement of a decades-old international arbitration case dating back to when Iranians paid Washington for military equipment they never received.</p>
<p><amp-youtube layout="responsive" width="696" height="392" data-videoid="sH1H77s8NNI" title="Trump on Muslim 9/11 celebrations: ";I saw them, I was there";"><a placeholder href="https://youtu.be/sH1H77s8NNI"><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sH1H77s8NNI/hqdefault.jpg" layout="fill" object-fit="cover" alt="Trump on Muslim 9/11 celebrations: ";I saw them, I was there";"></a></amp-youtube></p>
<p>The US government denies the payment was ransom for the release of Americans, which may or may not be true.</p>
<p>The admission marked a stark and unusual reversal for Mr Trump, who rarely admits to error, but it may end the brewing controversy around his false claim &#8211; one that recalls his unsupported contention early in the campaign that he saw video of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks &#8211; instead of prolonging a potentially negative news story for the candidate.</p>
<p>To the frustration of Mr Trump&#8217;s aides and fellow Republicans, the celebrity businessman has often proven unable to let go of a bad story, often instead fuelling it &#8211; like he did this week when he escalated a row with the parents of a killed US soldier who was Muslim &#8211; at the expense of the campaign&#8217;s message.</p>
<p>Mr Trump first discussed the Iran video on Wednesday, telling supporters at a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida: &#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget the scene this morning. And remember this: Iran &#8211; I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ve heard this anywhere but here &#8211; Iran provided all of that footage, the tape of taking that money off that airplane.</p>
<p>https://youtu.be/ElIi2a0UYYQ</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, here&#8217;s the amazing thing: Over there, where that plane landed, top secret.</p>
<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t have a lot of paparazzi. You know, the paparazzi doesn&#8217;t do so well over there, right?</p>
<p>&#8220;And they have a perfect tape. Done by obviously a government camera. And the tape is of the people taking the money off the plane, right?</p>
<p>&#8220;That means that, in order to embarrass us further, Iran sent us the tapes, right?</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a military tape. It&#8217;s a tape that was a perfect angle, nice and steady, nobody getting nervous because they&#8217;re gonna be shot because they&#8217;re shooting a picture of money pouring off a plane.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;And Iran released that tape, which is of quality like these guys have. Iran released that tape so that we will be embarrassed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Several senior US officials involved in the Iran negotiations have said they were not aware of any such footage. Instead, the campaign said Mr Trump was referring to footage &#8220;shown on all major broadcasts this morning&#8221;.</p>
<p>A Trump spokeswoman told the Washington Post, the video he saw was grainy night-time footage of people getting off a small plane, holding bags.</p>
<p>&#8220;Geneva, January 17,&#8221; the footage is clearly labelled.</p>
<p>Mr Trump apparently assumed that this footage depicted the cash transfer &#8211; and concocted the story on his own about how the footage was acquired and the motivations for its release.</p>
<p>Mr Trump then repeated his original claim yesterday at a rally in Portland, Maine &#8211; even after his campaign said he had been mistaken.</p>
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