{"id":466684,"date":"2021-05-03T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=466684"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:05:56","slug":"iranian-state-television-claims-biden-admin-agreed-to-unfreeze-7-billion-for-prisoner-swap-biden-admin-claims-its-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-state-television-claims-biden-admin-agreed-to-unfreeze-7-billion-for-prisoner-swap-biden-admin-claims-its-not-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian State Television Claims Biden Admin Agreed To Unfreeze $7 Billion For Prisoner Swap. Biden Admin Claims It\u2019s Not True."},"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\">40<\/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%2Firanian-state-television-claims-biden-admin-agreed-to-unfreeze-7-billion-for-prisoner-swap-biden-admin-claims-its-not-true%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=466684&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Iran-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Iranian state television claimed on Sunday that the Biden administration agreed to unfreeze $7 billion in Iranian oil assets and release four Iranians held in U.S. custody in exchange for the release of four Americans accused of spying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran\u2019s envoy to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said the report could not be confirmed, adding that Tehran has always called for a full prisoner exchange with Washington,\u201d Reuters reported. \u201cThe state TV, quoting an unidentified Iranian official, also said British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be released once Britain had paid off a debt on military equipment owed to Tehran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesperson Ned Price denied the report in a statement, saying, \u201cReports that a prisoner swap deal has been reached are not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have said, we always raise the cases of Americans detained or missing in Iran,\u201d Price said. \u201cWe will not stop until we are able to reunite them with their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-news-iran-europe-middle-east-business-af8595806655db90a1204ab88f05273c\">highlighted<\/a> the report from Iranian state television and noted that a source with knowledge of ongoing discussions between Iran and the U.S. said that talks are active between the two nations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.8125\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AP<\/a>) _ Iran state TV, quoting anonymous official, says deal made between US and Tehran for prisoner swap, release of $7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Gambrell \u062c\u0648\u0646 (@jongambrellAP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jongambrellAP\/status\/1388851207809249282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The AP\u2019s report added that even after the Biden administration denied the report coming out of Iran, Iranian state television doubled down on its claim that a deal had been reached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome sources say four Iranian prisoners are to be released and $7 billion are to be received by Iran in exchange for releasing four American spies,\u201d Iranian state television said, according to a translation by the AP. She described the claimed deal as coming due to congressional pressure on President Joe Biden and \u201chis urgent need to show progress made in the Iran case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the report on Sunday, White House chief of staff Ron Klain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/full-transcript-of-face-the-nation-on-may-2-2021\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cI can tell you, unfortunately, that report is untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no agreement to release these four Americans,\u201d Klain said. \u201cWe\u2019re working very hard to get them released. We raised this with Iran and our interlocutors all the time. But so far there\u2019s no agreement to bring these four Americans home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is currently in talks with Iran in Vienna to return to the controversial 2015 Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not yet reached agreement in Vienna which is where the talks between the world powers and Iran are taking place right now,\u201d national security adviser Jake Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-21-jake-sullivan-sen-john-barrasso\/story?id=77442272\">told<\/a> ABC News on Sunday. \u201cThere\u2019s still fair distance to travel to close the remaining gaps and those gaps are over what sanctions the United States and other countries will roll back. They are over what nuclear restrictions Iran will accept on its program to ensure that they can never get a nuclear weapon. And our diplomats will keep working at that over the coming weeks to try to arrive at a mutual return to the JCPOA, which is the Iran nuclear deal on a compliance-for-compliance basis. So the short answer \u2026 is there is no deal now. We\u2019re hoping to continue to make progress and we\u2019re hoping ultimately to achieve the objective that President Biden has laid out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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