Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday that $6 billion in long-frozen Iranian assets held in Qatar are being released and transferred to Tehran in a matter of hours, according to the official IRNA news agency. The amount constitutes one portion of broader frozen-funds negotiations that reportedly involve billions more. Pezeshkian's announcement cannot be independently verified.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated Monday morning that approximately $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets held in Qatar have been released and are scheduled to be transferred to Tehran 'within hours,' as reported by state-affiliated IRNA. The announcement follows a string of claims by Iranian officials in recent weeks regarding the unlocking of billions of dollars in assets abroad.
As The Zioneer reported (June 22), parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf claimed a $12 billion asset release had been completed in Swiss talks. Earlier, Iran's central bank governor cited a $12 billion first-phase release tied to a potential US memorandum of understanding. Pezeshkian's figure of $6 billion — specifically linked to funds held in Qatar — aligns with a portion of those totals, but discrepancies between official statements remain unresolved.
The $6 billion now cited by Pezeshkian matches the sum that was temporarily frozen under the 2023 US-Iran prisoner deal, which was later blocked amid regional tensions. The Iranian president's latest claim has not been independently verified by financial or diplomatic sources, and it is unclear whether any actual transfer has begun or been completed.
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