{"id":475367,"date":"2026-06-04T05:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475367\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:43:11","slug":"iran-demands-billions-in-frozen-assets-as-condition-for-agreement-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475367\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran demands billions in frozen assets as condition for agreement with US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a significant stalemate, with Tehran insisting that billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets<\/a> be released during the very first phase of any MOU agreement, according to two sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n

The dispute has emerged as one of the central obstacles preventing progress toward a memorandum of understanding between Tehran and Washington<\/a>, which would be just the first step towards a broader nuclear agreement. In recent days, regional mediators attempted to bridge the gap, proposing several compromise formulas. One of the option raised was a humanitarian fund of several billion dollars which would be only for the use of buying medicine, food and agricultural goods to Iran, one of the sources said.<\/p>\n

However, Iranian negotiators are demanding immediate access to liquid funds as part of Phase A of a memorandum of understanding agreement, before implementing any substantive measures on the ground.<\/p>\n

US officials have rejected the demand, arguing that sanctions relief and the unfreezing of funds must be tied directly to verifiable Iranian actions.<\/p>\n

Senior administration officials have communicated to mediators that Washington will not release any significant funds at the outset of an agreement without concrete Iranian concessions regarding its nuclear program<\/a> and security arrangements related to the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

US officials fear the unfreezing funds before would cause the US to lose a significant leverage, and make it harder to reach a concrete agreement on Iran nuclear program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a significant stalemate, with Tehran insisting that billions of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,142930,92,109283,1486,43,114994,3336,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-475367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-iranian-economy","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}