This is one of the little-known issues of the nuclear negotiations in Vienna between the great powers and Tehran, represented by Ali-Bagheri Kani, Iranian chief negotiator: the release of billions of Iranian dollars frozen in the four corners of the planet.
Hit by US economic sanctions that prevent the Islamic Republic from exporting its oil and drain the state coffers, Tehran is fighting to recover as much as possible.
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Diplomacy at the bedside of the Iran nuclear deal
As negotiations resumed Monday on a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran, a Shiite power in the Middle East, has just welcomed a condemnation of Bahrain to pay more than 200 million euros in compensation to two Iranian banks expropriated from this tiny kingdom in the Persian Gulf, protected from Saudi Arabia, the enemy of Iran.
The decision was taken on November 9 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague to which the two banks had applied.
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