 TEHERAN - Iran said on Sunday it had yet to pay $50 million it had pledged to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority and suggested the process for payment was still being discussed.
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The donation was announced in April to make up a shortfall left by an aid cut-off by the United States and the European Union and Israel’s freezing of the transfer tax and customs receipts to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian government. “The process of that $50 million contribution is in the phase of decision-making now ... The payment that I talked about has not been paid yet,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference at a regional ministerial meeting. He gave no further details.
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