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It is in no way illegalFreezing funds that do no belong to you is identical to theft.
Since they were not weapons, then any interference is illegal according to the 1906 Geneva Conventions that prohibit blockades on civilian commerce.
It violates US law because no where does the US Constitution authorize that power.
But it was illegal to storm the embassy