Some $6 billion of Iranian assets once frozen in South Korea is in Qatar, an Iranian official said ahead of a highly-anticipated and planned prisoner swap between Tehran and the United States. “We hope to have total access to the Iranian assets today,” said Nasser Kanani, referring to $6 billion in Iranian funds to be unfrozen as Iran releases five US citizens. “We witnessed freezing of parts Iranian assets in some countries including South Korea,” Kanaani said. We expect these two issues to fully take place based on the agreement.”He said two of the Iranian prisoners will stay in the US. There was no other information immediately released by the agencies and US officials did not acknowledge the comments.

Source: GNN Liberia September 18, 2023 10:57 UTC