ran�s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says that the only way South Korea can repair its tainted image in Iran is by quickly returning billion of dollars in funds frozen in the country because of US pressure.

Bagheri said on Wednesday that he had pressed South Korea�s First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong Kun in a phone conversation held earlier in the day for a repatriation of the funds held in two South Korean banks for more than three years.

�I reminded him (Choi) that only an effective and quick action to remove restrictions on Iranian funds in South Korea and compensating the costs incurred could effectively repair this country�s tarnished image among the Iranian people,� Bagheri wrote in a Persian post sent on Twitter.

South Korea owes Iran over $7 billion for imports of energy that took place before the United States imposed its unilateral sanctions on Tehran in mid-2018.

 

Source: Press TV