US froze prisoner exchange: Araghchi to Raab
Addressing the British Foreign Secretary, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister said that Rabb knows better than anybody else that the deal for release…
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UN envoy rejects report on release of Iranian inmates in US
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said he would not confirm reports that Iranian prisoners in the US were going to be…
Iran denies reports on prisoners swap with US
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Monday denied reports citing unknown sources that Tehran and Washington had agreed on prisoners swap…
Iran ready to swap prisoners with US: Govt. spokesman
Government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Tuesday that Iran is ready to exchange prisoners with the United States and that if it…
FM Zarif dismisses Iran’s exchanging two detained spies with US as fake news
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday reacting to the news about exchanging two detained spies with the United States, and…
Iran says it is ready to swap all prisoners with US
Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a virtual address…
Can Trump secure release of all US hostages in Iran?
Al-Monitor | Mark Fitzpatrick; On the surface, momentum seems to be building toward a further prisoner exchange between Iran and the United…
US wants face-to-face meeting with Iran on prisoners
Reuters – The United States would like a face-to-face meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the U.N. Security…
Iranian spokesman does not rule out prisoner exchanges with US
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman did not rule out the possibility of prisoner exchanges with the US. “We have already announced…
Spokesman: No direct talks between Iran, US on prisoners swap
FNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said that the Swiss government has played a mediatory role between Tehran and…
Photos: Iranian doctor jailed in US returns home
ISNA | Erfan Khoshkhoo: Iranian doctor Majid Taheri, who had been accused of violating US unilateral sanctions and imprisoned in the United…
Iran seriously follows up its nationals’ release detained by US pressure
IRNA – Iran is frankly trying to close the case of Iranian nationals who have been involved in files opened by the…
Iranian-American freed in prisoner swap with US arrives in Iran
Reuters – An Iranian-American doctor has returned to Iran, Iranian state media reported on Monday, after a swap deal between Tehran and…
Future US-Iran prisoner releases could be complicated by who’s involved, who isn’t
VOA | Michael Lipin: As the U.S. and Iran welcome the latest freeing of each other’s citizens and call for more such…
Trump advisers made a ‘Dumb Bet’, Zarif says of US JCPOA withdrawal
Tasnim – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed US President Donald Trump’s call for a “big deal” with Iran, saying Trump’s…
Shamkhani: Prisoner swap not result of talks with US
IRNA – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani in a message referred to President Donald Trump’s disastrous situation…
Iran says no prisoner swap deal with US for scientist: TV
Bloomberg – The return of an Iranian scientist who was imprisoned in the U.S. isn’t part of a prisoner-swap deal between the…
America and Iran are indicating that they don’t want further escalation
Middle East Monitor | Oraib Al-Rantawi: This article may seem like a total prediction, or perhaps an attempt to read some significant…
Iran says prisoner swap can happen without talks
Al-Monitor – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said May 11 that the United States has not yet responded to calls for…
Iran to US: Stop talking rubbish, release our citizens
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman called on US officials to “act responsibly”, stop risking the lives of Iranian prisoners in the…
No need for talks on prisoners swap between Iran, US: Zarif
MNA – Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that there is no need for any negotiations between Iran and the…
Trump retweets report that Iran is ready to swap prisoners with the US ‘without preconditions’
Business Insider – On Sunday night, President Donald Trump retweeted a news report indicating that Iran is ready to negotiate a prisoner…
Iran says ready for unconditional prisoner swap with US
Press TV – Iran says it has expressed its readiness to exchange all prisoners with the United States without preconditions, but Washington has not…
Despite rising tensions, Iran and US are negotiating a prisoner release
The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi: Iran and the United States are negotiating a deal that would release a United States…
US expected to deport Iranian professor acquitted of sanctions busting: officials
Reuters – The United States is expected to deport Iranian professor Sirous Asgari, who was acquitted of stealing trade secrets, once he…
Researcher freed from Iran urges release of other prisoners
AP — A Princeton University scholar who was freed from Iran this month after three years in captivity said Monday that his…
Iranian FM spox reacts to remarks of Mnuchin, Hook
MNA – In a press conference on Monday, the Spokesperson of the Iranian foreign ministry Abbas Mousavi reacted to the latest remarks…
Scientist taken to hospital in Tehran after release from US jail
Press TV – Iranian stem cell scientist Dr. Masoud Soleimani, who returned home last week following his release from US prison, has…
Spokesman: Iran ready for prisoner swap with US
Tasnim – The spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry expressed the country’s readiness for a package of measures to exchange prisoners with the…
US acquits two Iranian scientists for sanctions violations
MNA – Just a few days after the release of the detained Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani, the United States acquitted two other…
How Rouhani and Trump almost reached a deal
Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: The recent exchange of prisoners between Iran and the United States has convinced some observers there is still…
Iran ready for full prisoner swap, “ball is in the US’ court” – Zarif
Reuters – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States,…
Iran ready for more prisoner swaps with US, not negotiations
AP — Iran is ready for more prisoner swaps with the United States, the Cabinet spokesman said Monday even as he reiterated…
United States and Iran swap prisoners in rare act of cooperation
Reuters | Parisa Hafezi, David Brunnstrom: The United States and Iran each freed a prisoner on Saturday in a rare act of cooperation between…
US hopes US citizen’s release means more progress possible with Iran
Reuters – The United States is hopeful that the release of U.S. citizen Xiyue Wang by Iran will lead to the freeing…
US jailers had told inmates I was a terrorist: Iranian scientist
Press TV – Iranian stem cell scientist Dr. Masoud Soleimani, who returned home Saturday after being released from US prison, says his…
‘We can make a deal together’: Trump thanks Iran for ‘very fair negotiation’ that led to prisoner swap
RT – In a reprieve from the usual bellicose rhetoric, President Donald Trump thanked the leaders of Iran for swapping an American…
Iranian scientist Soleimani arrives home after over one year behind bars in US
Press TV – Freed Iranian stem cell scientist Dr. Masoud Soleimani has arrived in Tehran after over one year of imprisonment in…
Jailed Iranian prof. released from US after one year: FM
Press TV – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has announced that stem cell scientist Dr. Masoud Soleimani has been released after a year of…
Iran sends US list of names for its proposed prisoner swap
AP — Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday it has sent the United States a list of names it is demanding in a…