Iran receives $6B as assets unfrozen by US ahead of prisoner swap

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Tehran, Sep 18 (EFE).- The governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mohammad Reza Farzin, confirmed on Monday that the country had received just over 5.57 billion euros ($5.94 billion) in two banks in Qatar as part of funds unfrozen by the United States, paving the way for the exchange of five prisoners between Tehran and Washington.
53% : The diplomat added that two of the Iranian citizens will return to Iran, another two will remain in the US and the fifth will travel to a third country.
51% : The US approved a waiver for the release of funds - debts incurred by Seoul for the purchase of gas from Iran - and the money has been transferred to several accounts in Qatar.
39% : The release of assets belonging to Iran, which had been blocked in South Korea, is part of an agreement that Iran and the US reached in early August for the exchange of prisoners.
37% : The US has said that Iran will not have "direct" access to the money, which could only be used "strictly for humanitarian purposes".
32% : Iran has been accused of using dual national and foreign prisoners as a pressure tactic for prisoner exchanges with other states, a practice described as "hostage diplomacy" by other countries and human rights organizations.

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