A senior Iranian academic and political analyst says Tehran will have “full and direct” access to its funds illegally blocked in South Korea when they are released following a recent prisoner swap deal between Iran and the United States.
In a Thursday post on Twitter, which has recently been rebranded as X, Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, dismissed certain “dishonest” claims made by “bitter” people about the country’s access to its $6 billion worth of funds that have been illegally frozen in South Korea under the pretext of being subject to US sanctions.
“Iran will have full and direct access to its released assets, there will be no Qatari companies involved,” Marandi wrote.
He added that Iranian banks will have full control and can “purchase goods and services without any limitation or restriction.”
