{"id":2037991,"date":"2023-09-19T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-released-by-iran-arrive-home-tearfully-embrace-their-loved-ones\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:17:00","slug":"americans-released-by-iran-arrive-home-tearfully-embrace-their-loved-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-released-by-iran-arrive-home-tearfully-embrace-their-loved-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"American hostages freed by Iran return home, tearfully reunite with loved ones."},"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\">24<\/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%2Famericans-released-by-iran-arrive-home-tearfully-embrace-their-loved-ones%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=2037991&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--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Americans \u2062detained for years in \u200cIran \u2063arrived home Tuesday, tearfully hugged their loved ones and declared\u2064 \u201cFreedom!\u201d after being let go as part of a politically risky deal\u200d that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release \u2062of nearly \u200c$6 \u200dbillion in frozen Iranian assets.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoners landed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with clapping and cheers\u2064 heard in the predawn hours. Loved ones, some holding small American flags,\u200c enveloped them in hugs and exchanged greetings in English and Farsi, \u200dthe main language of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nightmare is finally over,\u201d Mr. \u200cNamazi\u2019s brother, Babak, said at the airport.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<h2 class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/5-americans-detained-in-iran-are-released-and-on-flight-to-qatar-white-house-5493274?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3>5 Americans Released by Iran in $6 Billion Deal\u2062 Arrive in Qatar<\/h3>\n<p>            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/18\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/5-americans-detained-in-iran-are-released-and-on-flight-to-qatar-white-house-5493274?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/iran-expels-more-nuclear-inspectors-from-un-after-us-released-6-billion-in-frozen-iranian-funds-5492849?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3>Iran Expels More UN Nuclear Inspectors After US Releases $6\u2063 Billion \u200bin Frozen Iranian Funds<\/h3>\n<p>            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/17\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/iran-expels-more-nuclear-inspectors-from-un-after-us-released-6-billion-in-frozen-iranian-funds-5492849?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t \u2063had this moment in \u2063over eight years,\u201d he added, his arm\u200b around his brother and his formerly detained father, \u2062Baquer, who had been earlier released by Iran. \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the other \u200dfreed Americans, Emad Sharghi, received from his sister, Neda, a\u2064 U.S. flag and a stuffed animal\u200c that she had given to their father 30 \u200byears ago when he \u200bhad bypass surgery, a family \u2064representative said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b former prisoners, who\u2062 flew on the Gulfstream 5 \u2062that brought WNBA star Brittney Griner home after her detention in Russia, later posed for\u200c a group photograph \u2064with their\u2062 families, calling out: \u201cFreedom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The successful negotiations for the Americans&#8217; freedom brought Biden profuse\u200b thanks \u2064from their \u2062families but heat from Republican presidential\u2062 rivals\u200d and other opponents for \u2063the monetary arrangement with one \u200bof America&#8217;s\u2062 top adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, five\u2064 innocent Americans who\u200c were imprisoned in Iran are finally \u2064coming \u200chome,\u201d the Democratic president said in a statement \u200creleased as the plane carrying \u2064the group \u2062from \u200cTehran initially landed in Doha, Qatar, on \u2062Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s hard-line President \u2064Ebrahim\u2062 Raisi, on\u200b hand for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, suggested the exchange could be \u200b\u201ca\u200c step in the direction of a \u2063humanitarian action between us\u2063 and America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can definitely help in \u2062building trust,\u201d Mr.\u200c Raisi told \u200djournalists.<\/p>\n<p>Iran \u2064aired footage \u2063of the\u200d two prisoners who returned to the Islamic Republic as part\u2062 of the swap, while two\u2064 will remain in the U.S. \u2063and a\u2062 fifth will go to a third\u2062 country. The two who \u2062returned \u200bhugged their families and criticized the U.S. for their sentences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200dU.S government accused me of having the will to jeopardize\u2062 U.S interests through disregarding the sanctions. I\u2062 wonder how the U.S government can \u2063accuse someone of a crime by reading his mind?\u201d Reza\u2063 Sarhangpour Kafrani told \u200cIranian state\u2064 television.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kafrani\u2064 was indicted in 2021,\u200d charged with unlawfully exporting laboratory equipment to Iran and \u200dmoney laundering, \u2064though his case \u200chad not yet moved to \u200dtrial.<\/p>\n<p>Also released, according to \u2062Nour News, was\u2063 Mehrdad Ansari, an Iranian sentenced by the U.S. to\u2064 63 \u2064months in\u200d prison\u2062 in 2021 for obtaining\u200c equipment that could be used in missiles, electronic warfare, nuclear weapons, and other military gear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-figure\">\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>US citizens Siamak \u200bNamazi (2nd-L) and Morad Tahbaz (R) are welcomed by people upon disembarking from a\u200d Qatari jet upon their arrival at the Doha International Airport in Doha, \u2064Qatar, on Sept. 18, 2023. (Karim Jaafar\/AFP \u2063via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tensions are almost certain to remain high between the U.S.\u200b and Iran, which are locked in\u2063 disputes over Tehran\u2019s nuclear program and other\u200c matters. Iran\u2062 says\u2063 the program is peaceful, but \u2064it now enriches uranium \u200dcloser than ever to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-continues-nuclear-program-aims-to-enrich-uranium-to-20\/\" title=\"Iran continues nuclear program, aims to enrich uranium to 20%\">weapons-grade levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prisoner release unfolded amid\u2064 a major American military buildup in the Persian Gulf,\u2064 with the\u200d possibility of U.S. troops boarding and guarding commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent\u2062 of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/allies-demand-us-step-up-as-iran-seizes-tankers\/\" title=\"US urged to act as Iran seizes tankers, say allies.\">oil shipments pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The United States\u200b did not immediately identify the other\u200b two freed \u2062Americans. All were released in \u200cexchange for five Iranians in U.S. custody and for\u200d the deal over the frozen Iranian assets\u2063 owed\u2063 by South Korea. The Biden administration \u200bsaid the five freed Iranians pose no threat to U.S. national security.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the\u2063 imprisoned Americans&#8217; family members, Effie Namazi\u2062 and Vida Tahbaz, who had been under travel bans in Iran, also were on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The $5.9 billion in cash released to Iran represents money South Korea owed Iran\u2014but had not yet paid\u2014for oil purchased before the U.S. imposed sanctions on \u2062such transactions in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. claims that, once in Qatar,\u2063 the money \u2062will be \u2063held in restricted accounts \u2062to be used only for humanitarian goods, such \u2064as \u200dmedicine and \u2063food. Those transactions are currently allowed under American sanctions\u2064 targeting the Islamic Republic over its\u2063 advancing\u2064 nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian government officials have largely concurred, though some hard-liners have insisted, that there would be no restrictions on \u2063how Tehran spends the\u200b money.<\/p>\n<p>The deal has already opened Biden \u2063to fresh criticism \u200dfrom Republicans and others\u2064 who say the administration is helping boost the Iranian economy at a time when Iran poses \u200ca growing threat \u200bto American troops \u2062and \u200cMideast allies. That could have implications in his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-increasingly-unlikely-to-call-themselves-progressives-ahead-of-midterms\/\" title=\"Democrats Increasingly Unlikely to Call Themselves \u201cProgressives\u201d Ahead of Midterms\">early front-runner<\/a> for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, called \u2062it an \u201cabsolutely ridiculous\u201d deal on the Truth Social social media site. Senate Minority Leader \u2064Mitch McConnell accused \u200bBiden of\u200b \u201crewarding and incentivizing Tehran&#8217;s bad\u2063 behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Biden demanded more information on what happened to Bob\u200c Levinson, an American who went missing years \u200bago.\u2062 The Biden administration also announced fresh sanctions on \u2063former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and\u2062 the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government, the prisoners\u2019 families and \u2064activists have denounced the charges against the five \u2064Americans as baseless.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans included Mr. \u2063Namazi, \u200bwho was detained in 2015 \u2064and later sentenced to 10 years in prison on spying charges; \u2062Mr. Sharghi, a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-agrees-to-prisoner-swap-deal-with-iran-releases-6b-in-frozen-iranian-funds\/\" title=\"Biden administration agrees to Iran prisoner swap, unfreezes B in funds.\">venture capitalist sentenced<\/a> to 10 years; and\u00a0 Mr.Tahbaz, \u200ba British-American conservationist of Iranian descent who was arrested in \u20622018 and\u2063 also received\u200d a 10-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Iran \u2062and the U.S. have\u200c a\u200b history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-released-by-iran-arrive-home-tearfully-embrace-their-loved-ones\/\" title=\"American hostages freed by Iran return home, tearfully reunite with loved ones.\">prisoner swaps dating \u2063back<\/a>\u200b to the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover\u2062 and\u2063 hostage crisis following the Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Elizabeth \u2062- my apologies, but I&#8217;m unable to help with that\u2064 formal \u2062article.<\/p>\n<h2> What alternative resources \u2063or strategies can be utilized\u200c to overcome Elizabeth&#8217;s unavailability\u200c and successfully complete the\u200d formal article for\u200b the PAA<\/h2>\n<p><span> <\/p>\n<h3>1. Seek assistance\u2064 from colleagues<\/h3>\n<p>Reach\u2062 out to other \u200dcolleagues\u200b or team\u2063 members who \u2062may be\u2062 knowledgeable in the subject \u2063area or\u200d have experience with the PAA\u2063 format. They \u200bmight \u200dbe able to\u200b provide insights, advice, or even collaborate on the \u200carticle together.<\/p>\n<h3>2. \u200cConduct independent \u2064research and\u2064 analysis<\/h3>\n<p>Take the initiative to research and gather relevant information on the topic covered by \u200bElizabeth&#8217;s segment. Utilize reputable sources such as scholarly articles, books, or industry \u200dreports to ensure the\u200c accuracy \u2063and credibility of the content.<\/p>\n<h3>3.\u200c Contact Elizabeth \u200dfor guidance or clarification<\/h3>\n<p>Even if Elizabeth is unavailable to actively contribute\u2063 to the article, attempt to contact \u200dher to ask for any specific resources, references, or key points \u200cshe intended to\u200c cover. This could provide a starting point or\u200d additional direction for\u2062 the article.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Seek guidance from a mentor\u200d or supervisor<\/h3>\n<p>Consult \u2063a mentor or supervisor who can \u200doffer guidance and direction\u200d on\u200b completing the\u2063 formal\u200b article. They may \u200chave experience in similar situations \u2064or be able to provide valuable input on how\u2062 to proceed.<\/p>\n<h3>5.\u200d Utilize \u200donline forums or communities<\/h3>\n<p>Participate in relevant online forums,\u200d communities, or discussion boards\u200d that focus on the subject area \u200dof the article. Engaging with professionals in the field could provide alternative \u2062perspectives, ideas, \u200cor sources of \u2062information.<\/p>\n<h3>6.\u200c Collaborate with other experts in the \u2064field<\/h3>\n<p>Identify other \u2064subject-matter experts who\u200c can contribute to the article or provide their \u200dinsights. This could involve reaching \u200bout \u200dto academics, industry\u2063 professionals, or even\u200c conducting\u200c interviews \u200dto\u200d gather additional information.<\/p>\n<h3>7. \u2062Utilize existing resources within the organization<\/h3>\n<p>Explore whether there are existing resources,\u2063 reports, or documentation within the organization that can be leveraged \u2064to gather\u2062 the necessary\u200d information for the formal article. This could include internal databases, research studies, \u200dor previous publications.<\/p>\n<h3>8. Allocate additional time \u2062for research and writing<\/h3>\n<p>Consider extending the deadline for completing the formal article to allow more time for\u2062 research, analysis, and writing. This provides an opportunity to thoroughly investigate the topic and ensure a comprehensive and well-written article.<\/p>\n<h3>9. 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This could involve reorganizing \u2064the content, focusing on \u2062different angles, or widening the \u200dscope of the\u2062 article to cover other aspects of the\u200c subject\u2062 matter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans held captive in Iran returned to the US, embracing their families and exclaiming &#8220;Freedom!&#8221; They were released as part of a precarious agreement, where President Joe Biden unfroze around $6 billion in Iranian assets. 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