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Iran has demanded a payment of $6 billion from South Korea for oil deliveries made in the last few years, according to a report in a South Korean daily that quoted unnamed government officials. According to Bloomberg, the report also said that the South Korean side had deposited the funds in two South Korean banks but had not transferred them to Iran because of U.S. sanctions. U.S. sanctions against Tehran were lifted in 2015, when the so-called Iran nuclear deal was signed, and only snapped back into place last November. South Korea was one of…