The Iran Project - According to informed sources, two out of the five Iranians who were released from prison in the United States as part of a prisoner exchange between Tehran and Washington have arrived in Doha, Qatar, with the intention of returning home. The individuals heading back to Iran are Mehrdad Moein Ansari and Reza Sarhangpour. Reports ...

The Iran Project - The secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi says five Iranians who have been imprisoned in the US for several years will be released on Monday. Gharibabadi stated that two of them will be arriving in Tehran through the Qatari capital, Doha. He expressed his satisfaction with the successful ...

The Iran Project - Irans permanent mission to the United Nations confirmed that five Iranian nationals illegally detained in the US on charges of circumventing US sanctions will soon be released in exchange for the release of five Americans held in the Islamic Republic. The mission stated that some of the detainees will remain in the United States ...

The Iran Project - Secretary of Iranian High Council for Human Rights says Iran and the United States have agreed to release more prisoners in a swap deal. Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Irans High Council for Human Rights and deputy head of the Iranian Judiciary, made the comments in an interview with Irans Arabic-language Al-Alam news network ...

The Iran Project - White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated on Tuesday that the United States remains confident that an agreement with Iran regarding the release of five US citizens is still on track. Sullivan told reporters during a conference call, "We believe that things are proceeding according to the understanding that we've ...

The Iran Project - Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Iran Nasser Kanaani dismissedthe possibility of any meeting between the Iranian and US presidents on the sidelines of the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York. Asked by reporters about the likelihood of a meeting between the presidents of Iran and the US in New York, Nasser Kanaani ...

The Iran Project - Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has stated that Tehran will continue its diplomatic efforts to achieve a final result that fully restore its rights. The top Iranian diplomat made the comments in a Twitter post on Saturday. This comes after a recent deal emerged, proposing a prisoner swap between the United ...

Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that the process of releasing billions of dollars from the assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which were illegally seized in South Korea by the United States for several years, has started. In a statement issued on Thursday night, the ministry said, Iran has received the necessary assurances regarding Americas ...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry put the blame on the US government for the prolongation of the process of exchange of prisoners. Speaking to reporters at a press conference on Monday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said the US government lacks the necessary resolve to finalize the exchange of prisoners with Iran. Iran has always been ...

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced that The United States and Iran are in indirect negotiations to secure a possible prisoner exchange. We have had contacts with Iran indirectly. There are no direct negotiations over the nuclear file or detainees. We have had those indirect conversations on detainees because ...

Iran's Foreign Ministry called on the US government to make up its mind about the exchange of prisoners and make a final decision as the two sides have come to a series of understandings through mediators. In comments at a press conference on Monday, Nasser Kanaani denounced the US for imprisoning innocent Iranian nationals under the pretext of ...

Addressing the British Foreign Secretary, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister said that Rabb knows better than anybody else that the deal for release of 10 prisoners was concluded weeks ago but his friends in Washington froze it. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political AffairsAbbas Araghchi in a tweet on late Friday wrote,"Sec@dominicraab,...

Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Monday denied reports citing unknown sources that Tehran and Washington had agreed on prisoners swap with the US. Khatibzadeh said during his weekly virtual press briefing that the issue of Iranian prisoners in the US has always been on the agenda for Iran and there have been plans and ...

Irans ambassador to the United Nations said he would not confirm reports that Iranian prisoners in the US were going to be freed as part of an agreement. Irans UN envoy, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said on Sunday that the reports about a prisoner swap deal with the US could not be confirmed. He noted that Iran has always insisted on a comprehensive ...

Government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Tuesday that Iran is ready to exchange prisoners with the United States and that if it has not happened yet was due to the US unpreparedness. Speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference, Rabiei said Iran is waiting to see how much the new US administration is serious to revise policies of the ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday reacting to the news about exchanging two detained spies with the United States, and said that "this news is 100 percent false". Stating that Iran proposed a comprehensive exchange of prisoners on both sides, he added that not only Iran has prisoners in different countries at the behest ...

Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a virtual address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday, amid heightened tension between the longtime foes. Washington has long demanded that Iran release U.S. citizens including Iranian-American father and son Baquer ...

Al-Monitor | Mark Fitzpatrick; On the surface, momentum seems to be building toward a further prisoner exchange between Iran and the United States. After two detainee swaps in the past six months, both sides have expressed a desire for more. The Donald Trump administration has made winning the release of US citizens a priority, and the Hassan Rouhani ...

Reuters - The United States would like a face-to-face meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an indefinite arms embargo on the Islamic Republic, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday. The two adversaries disagree on many issues, including U.S. President Donald Trumps decision two years ago ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman did not rule out the possibility of prisoner exchanges with the US. We have already announced readiness to secure the release and return to the country of Iranian hostages (jailed) in the US,Seyed Abbas Mousavi said. They (the Americans) have some prisoners in our country due to security-related crimes ...