ReportedDiplomacy & politicsDoha, Qatar
Talks on releasing frozen Iranian funds intensify despite strikes, Reuters says
- Mountain Time
- Local time
- 12:05 PM in Tehran
- Where
- Doha, Qatar
Efforts to reach a preliminary U.S.-Iran deal intensified overnight as negotiators discussed a mechanism to release frozen Iranian funds, Iranian sources and a European official told Reuters; one Iranian source said Iran wanted $6 billion to $12 billion released, while Washington wanted staged releases for humanitarian goods.
Why it matters
The money question was one of the main open issues in the memorandum that Trump said that afternoon had been approved.
Source
- The Guardian live coverage / Reuterstheguardian.comPublished
Confidence: Published by a named news organization. Not yet independently confirmed. About confidence labels
Correction
- Corrected the headline (it read "Reported talks continue around frozen-funds mechanism"); revised the summary; revised the context note; corrected the location from Tehran, Doha, and Washington diplomatic channels to Doha, Qatar; updated the sourcing note; removed Sky News live coverage / Reuters as a source (a rolling live page that now shows other content). Why and evidence