At least three US citizens are held in the country’s prisons. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TEHERAN - Iran’s top diplomat on Sunday said “everything is ready” to implement a stalled prisoner exchange deal with the United States, which Washington promptly denied as a “cruel lie”.
The deal had been “signed and approved indirectly” last year, he added in a televised interview, saying the “American side is making its last technical arrangements” ahead of implementation.“If everything goes well on the American side, I think we will witness the exchange of prisoners in the short term.”
In October, Iranian media said a prisoner swop agreed by Teheran and Washington included the unfreezing of Iranian funds abroad, but Amir-Abdollahian on Sunday made no mention of that.The foreign minister’s remarks came two days after a CNN interview with Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman held in Teheran’s Evin prison since 2015.
They were both sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in Oct 2016. Baquer, under house arrest since 2018, had his sentence commuted in 2020, and was finally granted permission to leave the country for medical treatment in October.
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