{"id":1999137,"date":"2023-08-13T03:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-will-monitor-and-restrict-billions-after-unfreezing-iranian-funds-white-house\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T03:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:07:05","slug":"us-will-monitor-and-restrict-billions-after-unfreezing-iranian-funds-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-will-monitor-and-restrict-billions-after-unfreezing-iranian-funds-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to Monitor and Limit Billions Post Unfreezing Iranian Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-will-monitor-and-restrict-billions-after-unfreezing-iranian-funds-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The United States Places Restrictions on Iranian \u200bFunds<\/h2>\n<p>The United States has\u200d confirmed it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-bans-bbc-broadcasts\/\" title=\"Beijing Bans BBC Broadcasts\">place restrictions<\/a> on what \u200bIranian actors can do with\u200c billions of dollars of funds that would be unfrozen \u2063under an\u200b emerging agreement that\u2063 has led to five \u2063Americans being released from prison to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2021-cant-be-any-worse-can-it\/\" title=\"2021 Can't Be Any Worse, Can It?!\">house arrest<\/a> in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Friday the country\u200d would have &#8220;full visibility&#8221; into where any released Iranian funds get sent and how they are used.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Essentially, the funds can only be accessed for food, medicine, medical equipment \u200cthat would not have a dual military use,&#8221; Mr. Kirby told reporters. \u200b&#8221;And there\u2063 will be a rigorous process of due \u200ddiligence and standards applied with\u2064 input\u200d from the U.S. Treasury Department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/american-troops-warships-arrive-in-hormuz-strait-amid-escalating-us-iran-tensions-5449817\">American Troops, Warships\u200b Arrive in Hormuz \u200bStrait Amid Escalating US\u2013Iran Tensions<\/a> &#8211; 8\/8\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/chapter-fifteen-the-communist-roots-of-terrorism-2718226\">Chapter Fifteen: The Communist Roots of Terrorism (UPDATED)<\/a> &#8211; 6\/7\/2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He stressed that talks are still underway \u2062and &#8220;the deal is not done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An estimated $6 billion in Iranian assets are currently held in South Korea. Mr. Kirby said there would\u2064 be &#8220;no impediment&#8221; to the potential transfer of the\u200c restricted\u2063 account from South Korea to Qatar, where Tehran would then be\u2062 able to access the funds.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State \u200bAntony Blinken insisted\u2063 on\u2063 Thursday that the \u200ddeal does not mean that\u2063 Iran will be getting any sanctions relief &#8220;in any event, in any respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He \u200cadded that the Biden administration \u2064has been in contact with the families of the five Americans\u2063 freed from \u2062prison to house arrest. &#8220;My belief \u200dis that this is the beginning\u200b of the \u200bend of their nightmare, and the nightmare that their families have experienced,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Starting \u2062what could be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-will-monitor-and-restrict-billions-after-unfreezing-iranian-funds-white-house\/\" title=\"White House to Monitor and Limit Billions Post Unfreezing Iranian Funds\">multifaceted process lasting weeks<\/a>, on Thursday, Tehran permitted four U.S. detainees to transition from Tehran&#8217;s Evin prison to house arrest. Another U.S. citizen had previously been placed under home \u200cconfinement.<\/p>\n<p>According \u2062to Iran&#8217;s mission to the United Nations, the \u2064agreement also \u200dentails the United States releasing certain Iranians \u200dfrom its prisons.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans argue\u2062 that the deal appears\u200b as\u2064 if the Biden administration is essentially providing a ransom for the U.S. citizens. They have also said that by allowing\u2063 Tehran to allocate the money for humanitarian causes, it could inadvertently enable the country to divert resources \u2063towards its nuclear initiatives or support militias in countries\u200d such as Iraq, Lebanon, \u2063and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has been accumulating near weapon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US will impose limitations on how Iranian actors can utilize unfrozen funds, as part of an agreement that resulted in the release of five Americans from prison to house arrest in Tehran. John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, confirmed this on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":1999138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}