The Biden administration secured the release of seven Americans imprisoned in Iran on Monday in exchange for President Joe Biden granting clemency to five Iranians held in the United States and unfreezing $6 billion of Iran's money.
Siamak Namazi; Emad Shargi; Morad Tahbaz; two Americans who want to remain private; Namazi’s mother, Effie Namazi; and Tahbaz’s wife, Vida Tahbaz are on their way to Washington, where they will be reunited with their families in the coming days with a brief stop in Doha, Qatar. Effie Namazi and Vida Tahbaz had been banned from traveling.
The three others Biden granted clemency to are Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, who was charged in 2021 with allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent on Iran's behalf while lobbying U.S. officials on matters such as nuclear policy; Amin Hasanzadeh, who was charged in 2019 with allegedly stealing engineering plans from his employer to send to Iran; and Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, who was charged in 2021 over allegedly unlawfully exporting laboratory equipment to Iran.
Siamak Namazi was detained in 2015 and later sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of having"relations with a hostile state" that were intentionally condemned, while Emad Shargi was detained in 2018 and also sentenced to a decade in prison in 2021 on unsubstantiated espionage charges. Morad Tahbaz was arrested in January 2018 during a crackdown on environmental activists and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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