Edit... Yousef Gouda

Following the admission by US translator Maryam Thompson (62) that she had leaked to a Lebanese Hezbollah-linked man the names of US army informants in Iraq following the assassination of Iranian General Qasim Solimani in a US air raid in Baghdad, a US court sentenced the US translator to 23 years in prison.

She was arrested by the FBI on February 27, 2020.

The United States Department of State said in a statement that translator Maryam Thompson, 62, entered into an agreement with the Attorney General's Office under which she was found guilty of the charges against her.

The statement also added that Thompson had admitted that she had provided a Lebanese man with classified military information, knowing that he would pass it on to Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed faction that the United States considers a "terrorist organization."

The trial documents showed that Thompson, who was working as an interpreter at a military base abroad when she woven a relationship through a video app in 2017, with a man who revealed to her that he was associated with Lebanese Hezbollah, had become, over time, emotionally interested in him.

The translator was reportedly placed in the service of US Special Forces in Erbil in December 2019, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region, as the US began to strike pro-Iranian militias.

These strikes culminated on January 3, when an American plane marched by Al Quds Corps commander General Qasim Solimani in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards near Baghdad Airport.

Soon after Solimani's assassination, the Lebanese man asked his American girlfriend to provide him with the names of the informants who might have helped the United States assassinate Solimani. He was not a Thompson until she reviewed the files of several US army informants in Iraq and provided her friend with the names of at least eight of them, as well as information on US tactics.

Thompson also provided her partner with dozens of files on American intelligence sources, including the real names of the people, their personal data, background information and photos of the people who helped Washington kill Slimani.

It should be noted that the statement quoted John Demers, National Security Officer of the United States Department of State, as saying that Thompson's sentence "reflects the gravity of her actions: It betrayed the trust of the American people, the sources that put them at risk and the soldiers I worked with. "