There has been a lot of improvisation on behalf of the biten administration with regard to the afghan funds. At first they froze cause they didn't know what else to do. Then they sat on the table with the talebanand now they're saying, ok, is sure we recognize that we did some legal and maybe we can put a few bandites on the situation. But that's not how finace works internationally. You know, whether you can't be bit by bit legal every month, either your legal or irlegal. And when the united states recognizes the fact that these funds do belong to the af Afghan people and to the financial system of afghanistan, they are
The US froze billions in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves when the Taliban took control. Now it’s wrestling with how to trust the Taliban with the Afghan people’s money.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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