Iran says frozen funds key to progress in U.S. talks
The discharge of frozen Iranian funds has change into a key challenge in negotiations between Tehran and Washington geared toward ending their warfare, a senior Iranian official stated.
Iran has been topic to asset freezes and sweeping sanctions by the USA and different Western international locations since its 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the US-backed Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
In an interview broadcast on Friday (June 5, 2026), Mohsen Rezaei, a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and an adviser to Iran’s supreme chief, stated the talks had been failing over the discharge of Iranian property.
“If he (Trump) desires to achieve an settlement with Iran, this $24 billion is a take a look at of belief that Iran desires to have with Trump,” he advised CNN, in accordance with an English translation of his remarks supplied by the channel.
“This can be a take a look at that America should go and the trail might be opened,” he stated, including that “that is our personal cash, not America’s cash”.
Whereas there isn’t a official determine for the overall quantity of frozen Iranian property, media stories have estimated the sum at between $100 billion and $123 billion.
Iran has conditioned an settlement to finish the warfare on a number of calls for, together with the discharge of the frozen funds. — AFP