{"id":184763,"date":"2023-08-29T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=184763"},"modified":"2023-08-29T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:07:08","slug":"irans-raisi-urges-japan-to-release-frozen-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/irans-raisi-urges-japan-to-release-frozen-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Raisi urges Japan to release frozen funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184764\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3974481-451902413.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3974481-451902413.jpeg 670w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3974481-451902413-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3974481-451902413-631x420.jpeg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Japan on Tuesday to display its independence from Washington by releasing Tehran\u2019s frozen assets amid US sanctions \u2014 and then said the only blocked Iranian funds were being held in South Korea.<br \/>\n\u201cJapan should act independently from the US by releasing our blocked funds,\u201d Raisi said when asked by a Japanese reporter about $1.5 billion of blocked funds in Japan.<br \/>\nHe then appeared to contradict himself.<br \/>\n\u201cI must clarify that our Central Bank earlier said we only had unjustly frozen funds in South Korea. All other assets abroad are at the disposal of Iran\u2019s Central Bank,\u201d Raisi said.<br \/>\nTehran and Washington have reached an agreement in which five US citizens held in Iran will be freed in exchange for $6 billion of Iranian assets frozen in South Korea.<br \/>\nOn Aug. 10, Iran allowed four detained US citizens to move into house arrest from Tehran\u2019s Evin prison. A fifth was already under home confinement.<br \/>\nThey are expected to leave Iran when the money reaches accounts in Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Japan on Tuesday to display its independence from Washington by releasing Tehran\u2019s frozen assets amid US sanctions \u2014 and then said the only blocked Iranian funds were being held in South Korea. \u201cJapan should act independently from the US by releasing our blocked funds,\u201d Raisi said when asked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184765,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184763\/revisions\/184765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}