Press TV - US President Donald Trump has lied again about Iran in an effort to trick the Democrat-led House of Representatives�to agree to pay for the southern border wall.�

In a fallacious�tweet on Wednesday, Trump �wrote that �Democrats and President Obama gave Iran 150 Billion Dollars�, arguing that they should pay $5 billion for the Mexico border wall.
The Democrats and President Obama gave Iran 150 Billion Dollars and got nothing, but they can�t give 5 Billion Dollars for National Security and a Wall?

� Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)�December 12, 2018
Trump, who has vowed to stop the inflow of Latin American refugees and immigrants seeking asylum in the US by building a wall on the border with Mexico but has so far failed to do so due to lacking a�funding, has uttered numerous lies about Iran to push his agenda through.

The truth about payments to Iran is that the Obama administration paid $1.7 billion to Iran in 2016 to settle legal disputes over a sale of military equipment to Tehran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iranian officials have already dismissed�Trump�s claim that Iran's�frozen assets in overseas banks�amounted to around $150 billion.

In total, $29 billion of Iranian cash has been blocked as a result of US sanctions, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced in 2015.

CBI�- to which the bulk of frozen assets belongs � says�$23�billion belongs to it, while the remaining $6-$7 billion is the government's�revenues from the sales of crude oil.