The swap includes British-American-Iranian Morad Tahbaz.
Five prisoners sought by the US in a prisoner swap with Iran including British-American-Iranian Morad Tahbaz have landed in Qatar, officials said.“Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home,” US President Joe Biden said in a statement released as the plane carrying the group from Tehran landed in Doha, Qatar.
In a statement issued on his behalf after landing, Mr Namazi said: “I would not be free today, if it wasn’t for all of you who didn’t allow the world to forget me.” The planned exchange has unfolded amid a major American military build-up in the Persian Gulf, with the possibility of US troops boarding and guarding commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of all oil shipments pass.
He said two of the Iranian prisoners will stay in the US. Meanwhile, Nour News, a website believed to be close to Iran’s security apparatus, said two of the Iranian prisoners had arrived in Doha for the swap. In his statement, Mr Biden urged Americans not to travel to Iran, and he demanded more information on what happened to Bob Levinson, an American who went missing several years ago. Mr Biden also announced sanctions on former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.
The two that Nour News said were in Doha were Mehrdad Ansari, an Iranian sentenced to 63 months in prison in 2021 for obtaining equipment that could be used in missiles, electronic warfare, nuclear weapons and other military gear, and Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, an Iranian charged in 2021 over allegedly unlawfully exporting laboratory equipment to Iran.
Iran and the US have a history of prisoner swaps dating back to the 1979 US Embassy takeover and hostage crisis following the Islamic Revolution. Their most recent major exchange happened in 2016, when Iran came to a deal with world powers to restrict its nuclear program in return for an easing of sanctions.
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