Iran grants furlough to American prisoner Siamak Namazi, lifts travel ban on his elderly father

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53% : Courtesy Babak NamaziIran has granted a furlough to imprisoned Iranian-American Siamak Namazi for the first time in seven years, and lifted the travel ban on his elderly father, the U.N. secretary general and the family's lawyer said Saturday.
51% : "The secretary-general is grateful that, following his appeals to the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, our former colleague Baquer Namazi has been permitted to leave Iran for medical treatment abroad," a spokesperson for U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said in a statement.
48% :Iranian authorities gave Namazi a one-week, renewable furlough and he was reunited with his parents in Tehran, his lawyer Jared Genser told NBC News.
42% : Siamak Namazi, a businessman who was arrested in 2015, is the longest-held Iranian-American prisoner in Iran.
42% : "Gambling the fate of U.S. hostages in Iran on the success of the nuclear talks is negligent & cruel.
41% : Three other Americans are held in Iran as well as at least one legal permanent resident.
39% : The move came as negotiations on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran have stalled, according to U.S. and European diplomats.
37% : His father, Baquer Namazi, who worked for the United Nations before retiring, was also imprisoned and later released on a medical furlough, but he has remained under a travel ban.
24% : Families and advocates of Americans imprisoned in Iran have called on the Biden administration not to allow their loved ones to remain behind bars even if the nuclear talks collapse, urging the White House to negotiate to secure the Americans' release.

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