{"id":49043,"date":"2026-06-07T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49043"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:06:25","slug":"us-eyes-iranian-assets-for-gulf-allies-reconstruction-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-eyes-iranian-assets-for-gulf-allies-reconstruction-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US eyes Iranian assets for Gulf allies’ reconstruction, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :<\/strong>\u00a0 The U.S. government will attempt to redirect \u200bIranian assets to Gulf states for rebuilding and repairs of damage caused by Iran, a source familiar with the matter said, as Tehran followed up a wave of strikes \u200cagainst Kuwait and Bahrain with further drone launches.<\/p>\n

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed a team to assess costs for damages already inflicted on Gulf allies by Iran, the source said, adding that the U.S. will consider using Iranian assets for repairs of any future destruction as well.
\nThe disclosure came a day after Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, told CNN that a peace deal to end the three-month war hinged on the release of $24 billion in Iranian assets frozen by the United States.
\nThe source on \u200bSaturday did not specify what kind of assets the Treasury was examining. The language used to describe the new measures did not appear limited to frozen assets.<\/p>\n

The threatened redirection of Iranian \u200bassets could create a new irritant to a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, which was tested again this weekend with strikes by the \u2060U.S. and Iran.<\/p>\n

Peace negotiations appear to have stalled, although a minister from mediator Pakistan traveled to Tehran on Saturday with a letter for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
\nU.S. forces \u200bstruck Iranian coastal radar sites in Goruk and Qeshm Island, both in the Strait of Hormuz, early Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran that U.S. Central Command says posed a threat to maritime \u200btraffic. A further two Iranian attack drones that were threatening shipping in the strait were also shot down, the U.S. military said late on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it retaliated against U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, and Kuwait’s army said on Saturday it engaged seven ballistic missiles that passed over residential areas, resulting in material damage but no casualties.
\nIn Bahrain, sirens sounded and residents were urged to seek shelter. Kuwait and Bahrain condemned the strikes.<\/p>\n

PAKISTANI MINISTER LANDS IN TEHRAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran later \u200bsaid it had hit U.S. bases in both countries with ballistic missiles, but the U.S. military said six missiles were intercepted and a seventh did not reach its target.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Iran have been engaged \u200bin largely indirect negotiations for an interim deal to halt the three-month-old war that would leave issues including Iran’s nuclear programme to further negotiations.<\/p>\n

But a deal has remained elusive while the two sides have periodically skirmished. Tehran wants access to \u200cbillions of dollars \u2060in oil revenue, waivers on sanctions on crude exports, the lifting of a U.S. blockade on its ports and leverage over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has effectively blocked the waterway, where about a fifth of global oil traffic transited before the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters :\u00a0 The U.S. government will attempt to redirect \u200bIranian assets to Gulf states for rebuilding and repairs of damage caused by Iran, a source familiar with the matter said, as Tehran followed up a wave of strikes \u200cagainst Kuwait and Bahrain with further drone launches. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed a team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49046,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49043\/revisions\/49046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}