Iran denies using unfrozen funds to buy American agricultural products

Golden Ten Data reported on June 23 that on June 22, U.S. Vice President Vance stated in Switzerland regarding the issue of unfreezing Iranian assets that the U.S. has established relevant procedures to ensure that any future unfrozen funds will be used to support the Iranian people rather than “funding terrorism.” According to Vance, the unfrozen Iranian funds will be used to purchase U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans, corn, and wheat, with this mechanism jointly reviewed by the U.S. and Qatar. However, according to a source close to the Iran-U.S. negotiations cited later by Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, the claim that “frozen Iranian funds will be used to purchase food” is not accurate, and there is no such provision in any agreement. The source stated that Vance’s remarks were “mainly due to domestic U.S. political considerations—what logic would Iran have to spend 12 billion dollars on U.S. agricultural products?”