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White House: US citizen release funds held in supervised account

White House spokesman John Kirby states that Iranian funds, for US citizens' release in a supervised Qatar account, is strictly for humanitarian use, benefiting people, not the regime, to bring detained Americans home.

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Transcript
00:00 The United States is pursuing an arrangement in which Iranian funds held in South Korea
00:06 are moved to restricted accounts in Qatar, where they would be available for humanitarian
00:11 transactions only.
00:12 Things like food, medicine, medical supplies, medical equipment, agricultural products.
00:19 These funds will now be subject to more legal restrictions than they were when they were
00:24 in Korea.
00:25 They will be monitored by rigorous due diligence standards required by the U.S. Treasury Department.
00:31 The Iranian people will be the beneficiaries of these funds, not the regime.
00:35 The regime doesn't get to touch the money, Peter.
00:38 It doesn't go to them.
00:39 They don't get to decide ultimate destination, and they have no direct access to it.
00:46 And getting Americans home requires decisions, sometimes really tough decisions.
00:52 It requires compromise.
00:53 It requires negotiations.
00:55 It requires negotiations with people you really would rather not be sitting across the table
00:59 from.
01:00 But you've got to do it, because Americans overseas in trouble, wrongfully detained,
01:04 need to know, and their families need to know, that this president and this administration
01:07 will do what it takes to bring them home.
01:09 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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