On September 18, Reuters news agency quoted an informed source as saying that Qatar had just confirmed that the $6 billion in frozen funds from Iran had been transferred to bank accounts in Doha.
The move would open the door to a prisoner exchange between the US and Iran.
Qatar Airways plane transports US and Iranian prisoners. (Photo: Reuters)
According to the source, a Qatari plane arrived in Iran on the same morning to take five American prisoners and two of their family members to Doha. In return, five Iranians detained in the US will also be released to return to Tehran.
The Qatar-brokered prisoner swap deal was made public on August 10 this year.
Under the deal, Iran released five detained Americans. In return, Washington agreed to release $6 billion in Iranian oil sales that had been frozen in South Korea under U.S. sanctions.
This money will be supervised by Qatar as an intermediary and Tehran will only be allowed to spend it on humanitarian purposes such as purchasing food and medicine.
In addition, according to the agreement, the US will also release five Iranian citizens it is detaining.
(Source: Vietnamplus/Reuters)
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