{"id":1996773,"date":"2023-08-10T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-agrees-to-prisoner-swap-with-iran-plus-6-billion\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:02:24","slug":"us-agrees-to-prisoner-swap-with-iran-plus-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-agrees-to-prisoner-swap-with-iran-plus-6-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran agree to $6 billion prisoner swap."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-agrees-to-prisoner-swap-with-iran-plus-6-billion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996773&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Iran and the\u200d United States Reach \u2064Deal\u200c to Free Imprisoned Citizens<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi\" alt=\"Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi\"><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">In a significant development, the United States and Iran have reached a deal to secure the \u200brelease of five U.S. citizens\u2063 imprisoned\u200b in Iran. According to\u2062 sources familiar with the agreement, Tehran\u200c will receive several jailed Iranians and gain access to\u2064 approximately $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue in exchange,\u2062 as \u2062reported by the <em>New \u200cYork Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Imprisoned Citizens<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Siamak Namazi, 51, and Emad Shargi, 58, both \u2062businessmen\u200d and Iranian-American dual citizens<\/li>\n<li>Morad\u2064 Tahbaz, 67, an environmentalist with British nationality<\/li>\n<li>Two other U.S. citizens whose identities have not been disclosed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Iran \u2062has already taken the first step towards their release\u2062 by moving the prisoners to house arrest, as reported by the <em>New York Times<\/em>. However, Jared Genser, the lawyer representing Namazi, \u2064emphasized that this is just the beginning and there \u2063are no \u200dguarantees about what happens next.<\/p>\n<h3>Easing Tensions and Pursuing a Nuclear Deal<\/h3>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">The release \u200dof these five individuals would alleviate a major source of\u2064 tension between the United States and Iran, as the\u2062 Biden administration seeks to revive a nuclear deal with the Iranian regime.\u200d While the White House has not confirmed the specific conditions of the prisoner swap, sources cited by the\u200b <em>New York Times<\/em> reveal that nearly $6\u200d billion in frozen assets in South\u200c Korea will be released for Tehran to access.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">Earlier this year, there were reports \u200dof indirect talks between Washington and Tehran regarding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/talks-heat-up-over-brittney-griner-swap-for-russian-terrorist-as-griner-team-appeals-drug-conviction-in-russia\/\" title=\"Talks Heat Up Over Brittney Griner Swap For Russian Terrorist As Griner Team Appeals Drug Conviction In Russia\">potential prisoner exchange<\/a> and the transfer of Iranian funds blocked by U.S. sanctions. If the funds are transferred,\u200d they\u200b can only be used for\u200c humanitarian purposes.<\/p>\n<h3>Long Detentions and Families&#8217; Criticisms<\/h3>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">Namazi, who has\u2063 been detained for\u200c over seven years on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-agrees-to-prisoner-swap-with-iran-plus-6-billion\/\" title=\"US and Iran agree to  billion prisoner swap.\">espionage-related charges rejected<\/a> by the United\u200c States, Tahbaz, and Shargi have all faced lengthy imprisonments. The families \u2062of these individuals have criticized the Biden administration for its slow action in negotiating their\u2064 loved \u2062ones&#8217; freedom.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I honestly don&#8217;t understand \u2062why \u2062the president hasn&#8217;t called us, why he won&#8217;t speak with us,&#8221; expressed Hannah Shargi, the daughter of one \u200dof the prisoners, \u200bin May.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The families have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-ways-parents-are-being-silenced-by-school-boards\/\" title=\"5 Ways Parents Are Being Silenced By School Boards\">made multiple attempts<\/a> \u200bto communicate with President \u200bBiden but have not been successful in\u2064 their efforts.<\/p>\n<p><span data-testid=\"Text\">Reuters reporting by Arshad Mohammed; Editing \u2063by\u200b Mark Porter and\u2062 Lisa Shumaker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/iran\/\" title=\"View all posts in Iran\">Iran<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>citizens will be released as part of a deal between the US and Iran. In return, Iran will gain access to $6 billion in oil revenue and release several jailed Iranians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1996774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}