The Wall Street Journal reports the US and Qatar are drafting a plan to let Iran
access part of roughly $100bn in frozen cash, starting with a $6bn tranche held
by Qatar for humanitarian purchases. The proposal, not final, would allow Iran’s
central bank to use extracted frozen assets—chiefly oil-export proceeds held
abroad—to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian goods; the mechanism could
be a template for other frozen cash pools and could serve as the first
disbursement toward about $24bn Tehran is seeking to unfreeze under a recently
signed end-of-war agreement.
