Obama’s team put ‘roadblocks’ in way of Hizbollah fight

BARACK OBAMA’S administration has been accused of undermining an investigation into Hizbollah in order to secure the nuclear deal with Iran.

The former US president’s team was said to have put “roadblocks” in place to slow the investigation of the Iranbacked terrorist group, amid fears it would undermine negotiations with the regime. The claims were made in an investigation by Politico, the politics website, and relate back to when Mr Obama was in the White House.

David Asher, who helped establish Project Cassandra, a campaign launched in 2008 by the Drug Enforcement Administration against Hizbollah, is quoted as saying: “This was a policy decision. They serially ripped apart this entire effort ... and it was done from the top down.”