CBI Disparages Currency Friction With South Korea

Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati says the bank’s foreign exchange policy has been crafted without taking into account billions of assets blocked overseas. 
He was responding to a statement by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier in the week who said the White House would keep controlling Iranian funds frozen in South Korea unless Tehran returns to the 2015 nuclear accord. 
The deal was abandoned by the former divisive president Donald Trump in 2018. In response, Iran scaled down its commitments envisioned in the historic accord with the six world powers.