DUBAI, Oct 2 (Reuters) – A regional country has mediated between Iran and the United States for the “simultaneous release of prisoners,” Iran’s Nournews said on Saturday, shortly after Tehran allowed an Iranian-American businessman out of prison on a one-week holiday.
“In the last week, intensive talks, with the mediation of regional countries were held for the release of Iranian and American prisoners,” the semi-official news agency said, without specifying which country was the mediator.
It also said that “Billions of dollars of Iranian assets frozen due to US sanctions will be released soon.”
Iran said in August it was ready to exchange prisoners with the United States, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted that “Siamak Namazi has now spent 2,500 days wrongfully” in Iran and Washington is determined to secure the freedom of all Americans held by. his Middle Eastern enemies.
Tehran has asked for the release of more than a dozen Iranians in the United States, including seven Iranian-American dual nationals, two Iranians with permanent US residency and four Iranian citizens who do not have legal status in the United States.
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