have said it sends a message that Iran can benefit by capturing Americans and holding them for ransom. citizenship and may be allowed to stay in the U.S.Ĭritics of the deal in the U.S. Another, Kambiz Attar Kashani, is an Iranian American sentenced in February to 30 months in prison for buying high-tech electronic gear. According to previous reporting by the Associated Press, one, Mehrdad Ansari, is an Iranian sentenced to 63 months in prison for obtaining equipment that could be used in missiles or nuclear weapons. is also granting clemency to five Iranians or Iranian Americans, most of whom were charged with - or were convicted on charges of - violating sanctions laws. Namazi Family Facebook From left: Emad Shargi, Siamak Namazi and Morad Tahbaz are three of five Americans who were freed from Iranian imprisonment in a trade for billions of dollars in frozen oil revenues. officials say it will be monitored to make sure it's used just for humanitarian needs - food, agricultural products, medicine and medical devises - that are not subject to U.S. That money was transferred to accounts in Qatar, and U.S. He said Iran "has mastered the nasty game of caging innocent Americans and other foreign nationals, and commercializing their freedom."Īs part of the deal, Iran gets access to nearly $6 billion of its oil revenues that have been frozen in a South Korean bank. But sadly, many are suffering those miseries right now." What I want more than anything is assurance that no one else will know the interminable anguish that my family and I experienced. Namazi said in a statement: "As a hostage, 2,898 days of what should have been the best days of my life were stolen from me and supplanted with torment. "As we celebrate the return of these Americans, we also remember those who did not return." "I am grateful to our partners at home and abroad for their tireless efforts to help us achieve this outcome, including the Governments of Qatar, Oman, Switzerland, and South Korea," President Biden said in a statement. citizens had been in negotiations through third parties for years. 10, when four of them were moved from Iran's Evin prison, known for its harsh treatment of foreigners and political prisoners, to house arrest in a Tehran hotel.
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The deal to free the Americans has been outlined since Aug. Tahbaz's wife and Namazi's mother - who had not been allowed to leave Iran - were also flown out, according to U.S. The others are Morad Tahbaz, an environmental activist, detained in 2018, Emad Shargi, arrested while visiting Iran in 2018, and two other U.S. In January, he sent a letter from jail to President Biden pleading for help in winning his freedom and announcing a short hunger strike. The Americans include Siamak Namazi, 51, who was held in Iran since 2015 - nearly all the time in prison - making him the longest-held American at least since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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