Iran’s president says $6bn in frozen funds currently in Qatar’s possession will be returned as part of the preliminary deal with the US to end the war, Al Jazeera reports.

“All provisions of the memorandum of understanding are in our favour, and the achievements of these talks and negotiations will become evident,” Tasnim news agency quoted President Masoud Pezeshkian as saying.

He said President Trump “who had forbidden us from doing many things in his recent speech declared all of them as the rights of the people and the nation”.

“Our $6bn in Qatar will be returned,” he added.

Pezeshkian also took a jab at Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu saying he’ll be “the first to be unhappy with the negotiations” in Switzerland.

“America’s only point is that we not have an atomic bomb. This is something the martyred leader also repeatedly said, ‘we do not want an atomic bomb,’” Pezeshkian noted, referencing the religious edict decreed by slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“America said ‘write this down and sign’ – and we signed.”

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