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Six billion dollars transferred to Qatar banks for US-Iran prisoner swap

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18-09-2023 | 06:22

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Six billion dollars transferred to Qatar banks for US-Iran prisoner swap

Qatar informed Tehran and Washington on Monday that six billion dollars from Iran's frozen assets in South Korea have been transferred to banking accounts in the Gulf state as part of a US-Iranian agreement involving a prisoner exchange mediated by Doha.

An informed source in Doha told Agence France-Presse, "Qatar has informed Iranian and American officials that the six-billion-dollar amount has been transferred from Switzerland to banking accounts in Qatar."

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