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President Donald Trump said Iran will only be able to use funds released from frozen accounts to purchase food and medical supplies from the US, seeking to ease concerns about peace negotiations that both sides say are making progress.
The billions of dollars of unlocked financing will go into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A. and will be used for the purchase of US-grown products such as corn, wheat and soybeans, Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.
He added that Iran had agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future in the parallel negotiation over Tehrans atomic activities, a central part of the discussions to end the near four-month war and keep the critical Strait of Hormuz open.
However, Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei disputed both notions, saying the funds would be used by his country freely, in whatever manner it deems appropriate, rather than being restricted to purchases from the US.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-23/iran-says-12-billion-to-be-unfrozen-ahead-of-rubio-s-gulf-tour?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MjIzNzEyMiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyODQxOTIyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSDJMWUtLR1pBTEQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNjgyQTUwQzJCRDM0MTFCQTgwQjEwQjZEQjczQzM1MSJ9.SBjHhxNHKe9ARITxVH2vlcTKDZ5scwqZoB-ztfBNjRs
greatauntoftriplets
(179,556 posts)underpants
(197,771 posts)The Chinese arent going to be happy, he told them they could buy more US farmland .not that Trump remembers that.
Baitball Blogger
(52,877 posts)Dear God, WWIII is going to be started because of his avarice.
ProfessorGAC
(77,659 posts)With a link like that in your OP, you can delete everything from the question mark to the end.
Would end up looking like this & take us to the same place.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-23/iran-says-12-billion-to-be-unfrozen-ahead-of-rubio-s-gulf-tour
Zorro
(19,000 posts)hookaleft
(1,238 posts)let me check Al Jazeera