Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that, after an agreement with the United States lifted oil and petrochemical sanctions, $6 billion out of $12 billion of assets frozen in Qatar would be released and returned to Iran, Iranian state media reported. Iran and the United States signed an interim agreement this month to prepare the ground for a settlement of their conflict.

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