##Iran: $6 billion and more for what in return? Dr. David Adesnik is a senior fellow and the director of research at FDD
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
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##Iran: $6 billion and more for what in return? Dr. David Adesnik is a senior fellow and the director of research at FDD. Malcolm Hoenlein.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/15/u-s-to-provid. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1e-iran-access-to-16-billion-in-frozen-funds/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/15/the-disastrous-implications-of-the-6-billion-iran-hostage-deal/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:12.0 | Iran, the Suspect Nuclear Weapons Program, the Predation, the Aggression, the hostage taking |
| 0:17.9 | and now $6 billion. |
| 0:20.1 | Malcolm Home Line, Conference of President's Major American Jewish Organization, says |
| 0:23.8 | with me. |
| 0:24.8 | And we're very pleased to be joined by Dr. David Adesnik, a senior fellow in the Director |
| 0:29.2 | of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:32.6 | David, good evening to you. |
| 0:33.6 | The last Malcolm equated me with this story. |
| 0:36.6 | The U.S. in some fashion was going to transfer $6 billion to the Islamic Republic of Iran |
| 0:43.0 | in exchange for filling the blank. |
| 0:45.5 | Is the $6 billion still in play? |
| 0:47.6 | Has it happened yet? |
| 0:48.6 | Good evening to you, David. |
| 0:49.6 | Good evening. |
| 0:50.6 | I don't think we have confirmation yet that the money has moved. |
| 0:54.9 | It's the $6 billion being held in South Korea. |
| 0:58.8 | It's an escrow fund where South Korea paid in money to Iran in exchange for oil at a time |
| 1:05.4 | when the U.S. permitted the oil sales but not for the money to go directly to Iran. |
| 1:11.6 | So to your knowledge, the money is still in South Korea or in some fashion. |
| 1:15.8 | Is that correct, David? |
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