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US President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast yesterday that he will not unfreeze Iranian assets before reaching an agreement with Tehran.
Asked whether he would be willing, as part of a potential agreement, to unfreeze Iranian assets or lift certain sanctions against Iran, Trump replied: “No.”
“(That) comes after. If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking,” he said in the interview with NBC.
Iran has demanded that billions in frozen assets be unblocked.
According to a source close to the matter, the US Treasury is considering the possibility that Iran’s assets could be tapped to compensate Gulf states for damages caused by Iranian strikes.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said yesterday that regional governments were “not in a position to demand reparations”, responding to reports the US could use Iranian assets to compensate regional allies for war-related damages.
Gharibabadi added in a post on X that Iran’s assets were “neither war spoils for Washington nor a payment fund for its allies”.
