Tasnim � Iran�s Foreign Ministry spokesperson denounced South Korea�s �blind� obedience to the US, saying Seoul has no right to freeze Iranian assets.

Asked by reporters at a press conference on Monday about Iran�s legal action to free billions of dollars of its oil money frozen in South Korea's banks due to the US sanctions, Seyed Abbas Mousavi said, �Our action is not anything new, as we have been pursuing the money South Korea owes us for a long time.

�South Korea has subjected more than half a century of relations with us to interference from others. South Korea�s blind obedience to the US and its move to use the unilateral US pressures as an excuse (for blocking Iran�s assets) are not acceptable to us.�

It is not surprising that a number of countries are under the US pressure, the Iranian spokesman said, adding, �But they have no right to block the Iranian nation�s assets for some time.�

He went on to say that the Foreign Ministry �has taken the necessary and legal measures (to unblock the money).�

On June 12, Hossein Tanhaee, the chairman of Iran and South Korea's joint chamber of commerce told Borna news agency that Iran's frozen assets in South Korea were between $6.5 billion and $9 billion.

Tanhaee added that not only Korean banks refuse to release Iran's money, some of them have also demanded commission and maintenance fees for Iran's accounts.