Washington has the “ability to freeze them again if we need to,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday.
The Biden administration is pushing back after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his government would choose how it will use the $6 billion in frozen funds set to be released by Washington in aThe deal, which would see South Korea releasing frozen Iranian funds to Qatar, marks a diplomatic breakthrough for the U.S. and Iran, as they have sparred over issues from the Iran nuclear deal to Tehran’s continued ties with Moscow.
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller denied Raisi’s assertion, telling reporters on Tuesday afternoon that the funds would arrive in banks in Qatar and would be “under strict oversight” by the Treasury Department. “The money can only be used for humanitarian purposes,” Miller told reporters. “We will remain vigilant in watching the spending of those funds and have the ability to freeze them again if we need to.”
Raisi might’ve been “playing to his domestic audience,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on MSNBC on Tuesday, adding that “the parameters of this arrangement are very clear.” On top of unfreezing the money, the plan involves Iran releasing five Americans in exchange for the U.S. freeing a handful of imprisoned Iranians, a person briefed on the deal by the State Department, who was granted anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity,The deal is still coming under fire from Republican lawmakers, who say Washington shouldn’t be doing business with Tehran at all.
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