{"id":81923,"date":"2022-02-13T13:17:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=81923"},"modified":"2022-02-13T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:17:41","slug":"afghans-protest-say-entire-7-billion-held-in-us-belongs-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/81923-afghans-protest-say-entire-7-billion-held-in-us-belongs-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghans Protest, Say Entire $7 Billion Held in US Belongs to Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f3_\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f3\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f8-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f3_\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f3\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f8-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f3_\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f3\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f3_\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f3\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f3_\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f3\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f8-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f3_\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f3\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f8.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Demonstrators in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden&#8217;s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America&#8217;s 9\/11 victims, saying the money belongs to Afghans.<br>Protesters gathered outside Kabul&#8217;s grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.<br>Biden&#8217;s order, signed Friday, allocates another $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for humanitarian aid to a trust fund to be managed by the U.N. to provide aid to Afghans. The country&#8217;s economy is teetering on the brink of collapse after international money stopped coming into Afghanistan with the arrival in mid-August of the Taliban.<br>Afghanistan&#8217;s Central Bank called on Biden to reverse his order and release the funds to it, saying in a statement Saturday that they belonged to the people of Afghanistan and not a government, party or group.<br>White House officials said there is no simple way to make all the frozen assets available quickly to the Afghan people.<br>Victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and their families have legal claims against the Taliban and the $7 billion in the U.S. banking system. 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