Iran stated that following Hamas’ gruesome attack on Israel, the United States “can not renege” on an agreement to deliver $6 billion in blocked cash through mediator Qatar.
Since Hamas fighters stormed Israel’s southern border at the weekend, murdering people in their homes and on the streets in an onslaught that cost more than 1,200 lives, Tehran, which financially and militarily supports Hamas, has come under severe scrutiny.
Iran has insisted it was not involved, but celebrated the Hamas attack as a “success”.
Israel has responded to the attack by pounding Hamas targets in the blockaded Gaza Strip, killing at least 1,537 people in the impoverished Palestinian territory of over 2.4 million people.
“The US government knows that it can NOT renege on the agreement,” Ali Karimi Magham, spokesperson of Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations, said late Thursday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“The money rightfully belongs to the people of Iran, earmarked for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to facilitate the acquisition of all essential requisites for the Iranians,” he added.
The exchange of five inmates between the United States and Iran last month included the movement of the frozen funds from South Korea to Europe and then to Qatar.
