DOHA: Frozen funds totaling $6 billion have been transferred to Qatari banks under a United States-Iran prisoner swap deal, with a plane on standby in Tehran to fly out five American detainees, a source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday.
The release of the funds by US ally South Korea, long blocked under US sanctions, is the key condition for the exchange of five Americans detained in Iran and, according to Tehran, five Iranians held in the US.
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