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SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2025
Iran's Raisi urges Japan to release Tehran's frozen assets

Global Economy

Reuters
29 August, 2023, 03:00 pm
Last modified: 29 August, 2023, 03:03 pm

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Iran's Raisi urges Japan to release Tehran's frozen assets

Reuters
29 August, 2023, 03:00 pm
Last modified: 29 August, 2023, 03:03 pm
File photo of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Photo: Reuters
File photo of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Photo: Reuters

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Japan on Tuesday to display its independence from Washington by releasing Tehran's frozen assets amid US sanctions - and then said the only blocked Iranian funds were being held in South Korea.

"Japan should act independently from the US by releasing our blocked funds," Raisi said when asked by a Japanese reporter about $1.5 billion of blocked funds in Japan.

He then appeared to contradict himself.

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"I must clarify that our Central Bank earlier said we only had unjustly frozen funds in South Korea. All other assets abroad are at the disposal of Iran's Central Bank," Raisi said.

Tehran and Washington have reached an agreement in which five US citizens held in Iran will be freed in exchange for $6 billion of Iranian assets frozen in South Korea.

On August 10, Iran allowed four detained US citizens to move into house arrest from Tehran's Evin prison. A fifth was already under home confinement.

They are expected to leave Iran when the money reaches accounts in Qatar.

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