Speaking during a meeting with Ayatollah Mousa Shobeiri Zanjani, Pezeshkian said the funds represented half of the $12 billion in Iranian assets currently held in Qatar, according to IRNA. He said efforts were continuing to secure the return of the remaining balance.

Pezeshkian described the development as part of a broader achievement resulting from what he called the Iranian people’s resilience in the face of external pressure.

The president said that despite the deaths of senior officials, military commanders, prominent figures and students during what he described as a war imposed by the United States and Israel, Iran’s public, armed forces and government had acted together to prevent their adversaries from achieving their objectives.

He accused the United States and Israel of seeking to destabilise Iran through economic pressure and attacks on key infrastructure, including gas production facilities, steel plants and the petrochemical sector, while attempting to restrict Iranian oil exports. Those efforts had failed because of public support and national unity, he said.

Pezeshkian also described a recent Pakistan-mediated, Islamabad memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States as a major victory for the Iranian people, saying it included the removal of sanctions on Iran’s oil and petrochemical sectors.

The president said the government had expanded social support measures alongside reconstruction efforts, including increasing the value of electronic food assistance vouchers.

Reaffirming Iran’s position on its nuclear programme, Pezeshkian said Tehran was not seeking nuclear weapons and that its nuclear activities would continue solely to meet national needs within its declared policies.