IRNA - Iran is frankly trying to close the case of Iranian nationals who have been involved in files opened by the United States within the framework of its maximum pressure policy against Iran, an official said on Monday. Deputy foreign minister for consular and Iranian expatriates' affairs, Hossein Jaberi Ansari made the remarks while speaking ...

MNA Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that Iranian scientist imprisoned in the US will return to the country this week. He made the announcement on Monday in his weekly presser, saying that all the measures have been taken for the release of Iranian professor Sirous Asgari, and he will return home this week. Dr. Asgari, a materials ...

Reuters - The United States is expected to deport Iranian professor Sirous Asgari, who was acquitted of stealing trade secrets, once he receives medical clearance to leave, U.S. and Iranian officials said on Tuesday. Asgari might be part of a rare prisoner swap between foes Iran and the United States. Iranian sources have told Reuters that Tehran ...

Radio Farda - An Iranian lawmaker has quoted a deputy defense minister as saying that more than 30 Iranians "active in military affairs" have been in jail outside Iran, but currently there are five individuals in prison abroad on charges of "military activity." Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, the spokesman for the Iranian Parliament National Security and ...

IRNA Iranian lawmaker referred to the latest condition of Dr. Sirous Asgari, Iranian scientist who was arrested by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and was infected with COVID-19 in prison, saying based on reports of Foreign Ministry, Defense and Intelligence ministries, Asgaris return has been confirmed. Referring to Monday meeting ...

FNA - The Iranian foreign ministry expressed concern about the conditions of the countrys nationals who are jailed by Washington while the coronavirus has vastly spread in the US. Unfortunately, a number of Iranian prisoners have been arrested and jailed in some European states and the US for unjustified reasons and imaginary and baseless allegations ...

Tasnim Iranian scientist Sirous Asgari who is behind bars at a US immigration jail will be repatriated as soon as he tests negative for the novel coronavirus, spokesperson for the Iranian administration said. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Ali Rabiee said Tehran is closely monitoring the situation surrounding the imprisoned Iranian scientist ...

Press TV - Irans Judiciary has urged the United States to immediately release Sirous Asgari, the Iranian scientist who has contracted the novel coronavirus in a prison in Louisiana. Asgari, a professor of material sciences at Sharif University of Technology,has remained behind bars in the US despite having been exonerated in a sanctions trial. The ...

Tasnim An Iranian scientist who has been pleading for weeks to be released from a US immigration jail due to his fragile health has contracted COVID-19, according to his family and attorneys. Dr. Sirous Asgari, a materials science and engineering professor who spoke out in March about the unsanitary and inhumane conditions in detention, was placed ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the US of taking Iranian scientists hostage and refusing to grant them medical furlough in the wake of coronavirus outbreak. US has taken several Iranian scientists hostagewithout charge or on spurious sanctions charges& not releasing them; even when its OWN courts reject the absurd ...

Press TV - An Iranian scientist detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has said that ICEs handling of the coronavirus,COVID-19 outbreak may kill him along with many other inmates, according to a report. The British daily Guardian published an interview with Iranian materials science and engineering professor Sirous Asghari ...