![[국제]Iran “The hostage criminal is held by the South Korean government…$7 billion hostage”](https://image.ytn.co.kr/general/jpg/2021/0105/202101052354000211_t.jpg "[국제]Iran “The hostage criminal is held by the South Korean government…$7 billion hostage”")
Calculation of trying to gain an advantage in negotiations of frozen funds with Korea
The Associated Press “directly recognized the association with frozen assets”
Iranian assets frozen in Korea worth KRW 7.6 trillion
[앵커]
Iran insisted that the South Korean government is holding Iranian money hostage in connection with the arrest of our chemical carrier.
The announcement of a government spokesman’s position weighs on the analysis that Iranian funds, whose withdrawals were frozen in South Korean accounts, were one of the backgrounds for the capture of oil tankers.
Reporter Kim Jin-ho.
[기자]
An Iranian government spokesman held an online conference on the capture of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Korean national chemical carrier,’Korea Chemie’.
A spokesman for Ali Bayay dismissed the claim that Iran’s capture of Korean ships was a hostage act, but insisted that the South Korean government is taking hostages.
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Although the Iranian Revolutionary Guard raised charges of maritime pollution as a reason for the capture, analysis was raised that it was actually a dissatisfaction with Iranian funds frozen in South Korean accounts or targeting hostile US and its allies.
In the midst of this, Raviei spokesman’s remarks will weigh on the analysis that Iranian funds, whose withdrawals were frozen from Korean accounts due to US sanctions, were one of the backgrounds that captured the’Korean chemistry’.
Analysis suggests that the detention of Korean ships at the time the ROK foreign minister’s visit to Iran was promoted was calculated to gain an edge in the negotiations for the acquisition of the frozen funds.
In this regard, Iran also reported that “we are discussing with South Korea how to use the frozen funds to purchase the Corona 19 vaccine.”
The Associated Press rated Iran’s government spokesman as “the most straightforward recognition of its association with frozen assets.”
According to the Bank of Korea, IBK IBK, and Woori Bank, the’Iranian funds’ frozen in Korea are estimated to be about 7 billion dollars, and about 7.6 trillion won of our money.
The U.S. government put Iran’s central bank on sanctions list in 2018, stopping transactions through the account, and the Iranian government has demanded that the money freeze be lifted.
This is YTN Kim Jin-ho.
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