After 2,898 days of captivity in Iran, Siamak Namazi was desperate to feel the warm sun on his face, lay back in the grass, and look up at the blue sky. “For almost eight years I have been ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran has generated a massive windfall of up to $15.7 billion for illegally seizing American hostages as part of a ruthless hostage policy that has been fine-tuned since its ...
Iran releases 5 Americans in prisoner swap 03:09 The American detainees include three who were imprisoned after they were sentenced on substantiated charges of spying and declared wrongfully ...
Five U.S. citizens detained by Iran were freed Monday in a high-stakes, complex diplomatic deal brokered between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Biden administration that included the ...
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Five Americans detained for years in Iran walked off a plane and into freedom Monday, some arm-in-arm, as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree ...
Five Americans who have been held in Iran for years are on their way to the United States in return for Iranians released from U.S. custody and Tehran's access to $6 billion in frozen oil revenues ...
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas last week criticized the transfer, saying, “The way to avoid having hostages taken by Iran is to be strong, firm and resolute and did not use carrots in ...
Five Americans imprisoned in Iran and two of their family members are en route to the United States after they were released in a prisoner exchange the Biden administration negotiated with Tehran.
The prisoner swap also involved the unfreezing of $6 billion in Iranian assets. The plane carrying five American citizens freed as part of a deal between the U.S. and Iran have now landed back ...
The United States and Iran appeared to diverge on a key term of the negotiated $6 billion prisoner-swap deal finalized this week. The deal between the two countries would secure the release of ...
The family of a Swedish European Union employee detained in Iran has urged the international community to help secure his release after more than 500 days of incarceration for alleged spying, his ...
The Biden administration is pushing back after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his government would choose how it will use the $6 billion in frozen funds set to be released by Washington in a ...
