During a portion of an interview with NBC News set to air on Thursday's broadcast of "NBC Nightly News," Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen by a prisoner swap deal the Biden administration brokered was money Iran was allowed to accrue under the Trump administration and Iran has "always been allowed to use" these funds for humanitarian reasons, but "for technical reasons, Iran was having trouble actually using the funds," and the Biden administration moved it to a different account, "where the money could actually be used, but under the supervision of our Treasury Department, only for humanitarian purposes."