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Iran frozen assets dashboard — 2026
Track Iran's frozen and restricted assets in 2026 by country, amount, legal status, and accessibility — including the Qatar $6B account and U.S.-linked claims, in one live reference view. There is no single “official” global total: we publish ranges and confidence because custody overlaps and filings differ. For who is sanctioned and under which programs, use our Sanctions page.
Legal guide (EN/中文): Definitions, instruments & chronology
Last updated . Coverage spans 15 major jurisdictions and policy frameworks. Numbers are reference estimates — always confirm with courts, regulators, or counsel if you need certainty for a decision.
Key figures & status taxonomy
USD · editorial ranges
Estimated funds abroad (tracked band)
~$95B – "40B
Overlapping custody; not a simple sum across rows.
Freely accessible now
~$0 – $2B
Narrow trade or court-ordered exceptions only; politically contested.
Restricted / escrow / licensed channels
~$32B – $52B
Includes EU-style restrictive measures, Swiss/Japan-style holds, and bilateral escrow (e.g. Qatar).
Blocked / frozen (immobilized)
~$58B – $88B
Blocking and immobilization narratives in major allied jurisdictions.
Seized / forfeited (adjudicated)
~$2B – $8B
Title shifted after judgment or domestic forfeiture channels.
Jurisdictions in this table
19
Rows are editorial selections, not every regime worldwide.
Jurisdictions by status (this table)
Status legend
- Frozen
- — Assets blocked or immobilized pending legal or policy outcome.
- Restricted
- — Use or transfer limited; may still earn income under license.
- Transferred but blocked
- — Moved into custody or escrow that still cannot be freely used or repatriated.
- Forfeited / seized
- — Title transferred to a state or creditor after final judgment.
- Disputed
- — Public classification or amount contested; filings and policy statements diverge.
- Historically unfrozen
- — Court or regulator ordered a release in a tracked window; may still overlap other rows’ ranges.
Quick summary
Iran-related money abroad shows up as central-bank reserves, bank custody, court-held funds, and similar arrangements — and public numbers rarely line up into one neat total. We publish ranges and how reliable we think each estimate is because the same funds can be counted in more than one country’s reporting, and “restricted” is not the same as “frozen” in every legal system.
The Sanctions page is about who is on a list and which rules apply to them. This page is about where money is held, roughly how much, and what status it has (frozen, restricted, transferred but blocked, forfeited, disputed, or historically unfrozen). Neither page is legal advice; use official sources when it matters.
Jurisdiction map
Color is legal status (same as the table). Circle size reflects the midpoint of the published USD range on a square-root scale so small bands stay visible — it is not an “urgency” score. Placements are national centroids, not bank locations. Hover a circle to read it above overlaps; click for full labels.
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Jurisdiction table (19 rows)
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Quick filters
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Showing 19 of 19 rows after filters.
IEEPA / OFAC blocking; criminal forfeiture
Central bank reserves + bank custody; overlapping claims with allies.
Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Act; court orders
Includes escrow pending arbitration outcomes.
EU restrictive measures; member enforcement
Member-state reporting lags; ranges from consolidated estimates.
EU implementation; BaFin asset freezes
Bank-held balances and title to securities.
EU measures; Trésor blocking
Foreign Exchange Act; cabinet orders
MOF public notices; bank reporting.
FTRA; FSC coordination
Includes won-denominated custody converted at spot ranges.
Special Economic Measures Act
Embargoes Act; FINMA guidance
Bank secrecy limits public granularity.
EU implementation; treasury blocking
EU implementation; DNB oversight
EU funds law; CSSF-style freezes (cross-border)
Fund structures complicate single-jurisdiction totals.
Autonomous sanctions; AML/CTF
Terrorism Suppression of Financing; MAS directions
Often reported as “affected assets” not full block.
Domestic AML holds; correspondent banking
Public disclosure limited; includes pending settlements.
SAMF / local bank compliance
Bilateral escrow; Qatari central-bank custody; diplomatic release terms
Wire and policy reporting often cite ~$6B in escrow; band allows for currency, accrued interest, and definitional drift. See Qatar & bilateral section for sourcing limits.
UNSCR implementation; FEMA
Small vs global total but legally distinct channel.
Domestic court; war reparations linkage (legacy)
Legacy claims; overlap with UN escrow narratives.
| Jurisdiction | Amt (USD) | Currency | Asset type | Access | Source | Status | Legal basis | Verified | Confidence | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $38B – $52B | USD (range) | Central bank & bank custody | Blocked — no routine access | Treasury notices & major filings | Frozen | IEEPA / OFAC blocking; criminal forfeiture | 2026-03 | High | |
| United Kingdom | $6B – $9B | USD (range) | Bank & court custody | Blocked — limited releases | HMT / court dockets | Frozen | Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Act; court orders | 2026-03 | High | |
| European Union (aggregate) | "8B – $28B | USD (range) | Cross-member custody | Licensed / humanitarian windows | Consolidated estimates | Restricted | EU restrictive measures; member enforcement | 2026-02 | Low | |
| Germany | $3.5B – $5.5B | USD (range) | Bank custody & securities | Blocked — no routine access | BaFin & EU notices | Frozen | EU implementation; BaFin asset freezes | 2026-03 | High | |
| France | $2.8B – $4.2B | USD (range) | Treasury & bank custody | Blocked — no routine access | Official freezing notices | Frozen | EU measures; Trésor blocking | 2026-03 | High | |
| Japan | $2.5B – $4B | USD (range) | Immobilized securities & deposits | Restricted — MOF directions | MOF public notices | Restricted | Foreign Exchange Act; cabinet orders | 2026-02 | Medium | |
| South Korea | $3.2B – $5.8B | USD (range) | Won custody (converted band) | Blocked — FSC-coordinated | FSC tables & notices | Frozen | FTRA; FSC coordination | 2026-02 | High | |
| Canada | ".8B – $3.1B | USD (range) | Bank custody | Blocked — autonomous measures | Gazette & dept. statements | Frozen | Special Economic Measures Act | 2026-01 | Medium | |
| Switzerland | $5B – $8B | USD (range) | Bank “affected assets” | Restricted — bank compliance | FINMA & statistical releases | Restricted | Embargoes Act; FINMA guidance | 2026-03 | Low | |
| Belgium | $0.9B – ".6B | USD (range) | Treasury & bank custody | Blocked | EU implementation notices | Frozen | EU implementation; treasury blocking | 2026-01 | Medium | |
| Netherlands | ".1B – $2B | USD (range) | DNB-supervised custody | Blocked | EU & DNB chain | Frozen | EU implementation; DNB oversight | 2026-02 | Medium | |
| Luxembourg | $0.4B – $0.9B | USD (range) | UCITS / fund structures | Restricted — fund-level holds | Consolidated estimates | Restricted | EU funds law; CSSF-style freezes (cross-border) | 2025-12 | Low | |
| Australia | $0.35B – $0.75B | USD (range) | Bank custody | Blocked | DFAT sanctions lists | Frozen | Autonomous sanctions; AML/CTF | 2026-01 | Medium | |
| Singapore | $0.5B – ".2B | USD (range) | Bank & MAS directions | Restricted — compliance holds | MAS notices (where public) | Restricted | Terrorism Suppression of Financing; MAS directions | 2026-02 | Low | |
| United Arab Emirates | $0.6B – $2B | USD (range) | Correspondent & local custody | Uncertain — mixed reporting | Press & sparse official readouts | Disputed | Domestic AML holds; correspondent banking | 2025-11 | Disputed | |
| Saudi Arabia | $0.2B – $0.9B | USD (range) | Local bank compliance | Uncertain — limited disclosure | Sparse public data | Disputed | SAMF / local bank compliance | 2025-10 | Disputed | |
| Qatar | $5B – $7B | USD (range) | Central-bank escrow | Escrow — release conditional | Wire + official readouts | Transferred but blocked | Bilateral escrow; Qatari central-bank custody; diplomatic release terms | 2026-04 | Medium | |
| India | $0.15B – $0.45B | USD (range) | RBI / banking channel | Blocked — UN channel | UNSCR & RBI reporting | Frozen | UNSCR implementation; FEMA | 2026-01 | Low | |
| Iraq | $0.08B – $0.25B | USD (range) | Court-linked custody | Forfeited / reparations | Domestic judgments | Forfeited / seized | Domestic court; war reparations linkage (legacy) | 2025-09 | Low |
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U.S. claims & litigation landscape
U.S. rows in this table bundle several distinct legal channels: Treasury blocking rules, bank custody, criminal and civil forfeiture, and long-running terrorism-related judgments that claimants seek to enforce against Iranian assets abroad. Those channels do not move in lockstep — a blocked account can remain frozen while a separate judgment creditor pursues different property.
Blocking & ownership
Blocking vs. ownership
OFAC and IEEPA programs can immobilize funds even when ultimate ownership is disputed. “Frozen” here follows public designations and major enforcement notices; it does not mean every dollar has been finally adjudicated to the U.S. government or to private plaintiffs.
Judgments & programs
Civil judgments & enforcement
Large default judgments against Iran in U.S. federal courts created a persistent enforcement story: claimants look for attachable assets in third countries, while banks face conflicting court orders and sanctions compliance. Double-counting risk is highest where the same reserves are discussed in both diplomatic and litigation reporting.
Victim compensation programs
Congressional mechanisms and settlement vehicles sometimes allocate a subset of blocked funds for U.S. national claim classes. Those programs change who may benefit without necessarily changing the headline custodial total — another reason we publish ranges instead of a single “U.S. total.”
Definitions, instruments & chronology For statutory definitions, JCPOA-era context, and a chronological narrative, use the legal guide linked from the hero and Qatar sections.
Scenario lab (modeled only)
The global KPI band on this page (~$95B – "40B) is an editorial range, not a traded price. The buttons below multiply both ends of that band by fixed factors to illustrate sensitivity — they do not reflect new intelligence, court orders, or policy leaks.
Illustrative global band
~$95B – "40B
Baseline keeps the published editorial band; use the jurisdiction table for country-level detail.
Modeled illustration only. Not a forecast, not legal advice, and not a revised official total.
Qatar & bilateral custody
Qatar appears constantly in Iran frozen-asset coverage because several negotiation tracks have used Doha as a neutral venue and because wire reporting often cites a multibillion-dollar escrow held under Qatari central-bank custody. That narrative is politically salient; legally it is a narrow custody story: who holds title day-to-day, which release conditions are binding, and which sanctions or court orders still block settlement.
We model this as its own jurisdiction row (see the table above) with a medium-confidence band around the widely repeated ~$6B figure. The band is deliberately wider than a headline because wire services rarely agree on currency mix, accrued interest, whether swap lines count toward the same “pot,” and whether politicians are describing the same account as diplomats.
Other bilateral hubs can behave the same way — balances sit in a friendly jurisdiction under bespoke contracts while Washington, Brussels, Tehran, and private claimants argue over priority. When those stories surface, treat them like Qatar: separate custodian country, claimant, and the rule stack, then compare to our row notes rather than assuming a fresh global total.
For definitions of frozen vs restricted vs blocked, secondary sanctions, and JCPOA-era context, use the Market Intel legal guide linked below.
Editorial USD band
$5B – $7B
Sourcing policy (this section)
We do not publish custodian bank statements. Amounts here synthesize major wire reporting, official readouts where available, and prior editorial passes dated in the table. When primary documents conflict with press summaries, we widen the band or lower confidence instead of picking a single “true” number. Flag errors with primary links and we will reconcile in a dated change log entry.
Latest changes
Spec alignment: KPI buckets, status taxonomy, table columns, quick filters
KPI strip now follows accessibility-style buckets (estimated abroad, freely accessible, restricted/escrow, blocked, seized, jurisdiction count). Status model adds transferred-but-blocked, disputed, and historically unfrozen (legend); Qatar row uses transferred-but-blocked; Gulf rows marked disputed where disclosure is thin. Table adds currency, asset type, access, and source columns; quick filter chips and search apply to the visible client-side view only.
Table UX: filters, citations, scenario lab, U.S. claims section
Client-only status/confidence filters and sort modes (URL-stable for crawlers); expandable per-jurisdiction editorial notes with official links; illustrative global-band scenario strip (explicitly modeled); expanded U.S. claims & litigation framing (EN/中文). Stable row keys align map pins with data rows.
Qatar: bilateral escrow row + dedicated section
Added Qatar as its own jurisdiction line (~$5–7B band around the widely cited ~$6B narrative) and a sourcing-forward explainer under Qatar & bilateral custody.
EU consolidated reporting window
Member-state estimates for Q1 custodial balances refreshed; wide confidence bands retained where disclosures lag.
U.S.: supplemental blocking notice
Additional bank custody lines reclassified from restricted to frozen pending OFAC review; range midpoint revised upward.
Japan MOF guidance
Clarified reporting for yen-denominated immobilized securities; no change to headline range, footnotes tightened.
Partial discharge (EU)
Court-ordered release of escrow tied to a single arbitration; reflected in editorial freely-accessible and restricted bands, not as a separate jurisdiction status row.
Switzerland: FINMA Q4 statistical release
Aggregate “affected assets” ticked down; confidence remains low due to non-public bank-level data.
Korea: year-end custody survey
FSC table revision; upper bound of Asia-Pacific KPI trimmed slightly.
Methodology & data ops
- We publish jurisdiction-level ranges with explicit confidence, not a single headline “official” total. Overlapping custody, double-counting across allies, and non-public bank data make a precise global sum misleading.
- Legal labels (frozen vs restricted vs forfeited) follow how regimes describe measures in public notices and major court filings, not colloquial press usage.
- Figures are researched and updated manually by the IranWarRoom team—not from live automated feeds. Each row shows when that line was last checked; we aim to review monthly or sooner after major court or regulatory developments.
- When we change amounts, labels, or confidence in a meaningful way, we summarize it in the Latest changes section.
- The jurisdiction map places each row at an approximate national or regime centroid for orientation only — not custodian addresses. Circle radius scales with the square root of the midpoint of each published USD range (larger circle ≈ larger published band). Color encodes legal status, not urgency.
- Status, confidence, sort, search, and quick filters on the jurisdiction table run entirely in your browser: they do not change the page URL, so crawlers still see one canonical address.
- The scenario strip scales the published global KPI band by fixed multipliers for illustration only — it is not a forecast, leak, or new estimate.
Roadmap
This page ships client-only filters, quick chips, search, expanded status taxonomy, extra table columns, richer scenario readouts, and the U.S. / Qatar sections above. Deeper time-series charts may follow when sourcing allows.
Iran frozen assets legal guide — definitions, JCPOA context, and U.S./EU/UN framing (Market Intel).