Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the mediation agreement between Washington and Tehran has begun to be implemented and within this scope, Iran released 5 Americans and Iranian funds frozen in South Korea were transferred to Qatar.
According to the statement made by the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar Minister of State in Charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khalifi stated that the implementation of the US-Iran agreement on the mutual exchange of detainees has begun. Stating that 5 US citizens in Iranian prisons set out for Doha International Airport after being released in return for some Iranians held in the US, Khalifi did not provide information on the number of Iranians released by the US.
Pointing out that this is “part of the agreement made last month under the mediation of Qatar regarding the exchange of prisoners between the two countries,” Khalifi said that within the scope of the implementation of the agreement, Iranian funds frozen in South Korea were transferred to Doha and Qatar will begin to activate the humanitarian banking channel. brought.
US CITIZENS REACHED DOHA
5 Americans, who were released within the scope of the mediation agreement between Iran and the USA, arrived at Doha International Airport in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
In the news in the US and Iranian media, it was shared that the two countries would exchange prisoners in exchange for the release of Iran’s 6 billion dollars frozen in South Korea.
IRAN ANNOUNCED: BLOCKED MONEY HAS ARRIVED
At a press conference held in the capital Tehran, President of the Central Bank of Iran, Mohammad Reza Farzin, gave information about the release of Iranian assets blocked in South Korea due to US sanctions within the scope of the prisoner exchange agreement with the USA. Ferzin stated that 6 billion dollars held in South Korea were transferred to bank accounts in Sweden in euros on August 10, and said, “During this period, 6 Iranian banks opened accounts in Qatar banks. Today, 5 billion 573 million 492 thousand euros were deposited into accounts in Qatar.” “The amount in question will be used within the framework of the central bank’s policy of strengthening the rial,” he said. Ferzin also stated that they received information from the Doha administration that 8 different bank accounts opened in Qatar were activated. (AA-IHA)