A look at known Iranian-Americans held by Iran as the US seeks a prisoner release deal - WTOP News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Siamak is the longest-held Iranian-American held in Tehran.
47% : He had been an advocate of closer ties between Iran and the West.
46% : His family says Iran had cleared him of spying charges in December 2019 after jailing and interrogating him for months.
39% : Baquer was placed under house arrest for medical reasons in 2018 but prevented from leaving Iran despite his family's pleas that he travel to receive emergency heart surgery after suffering multiple hospitalizations.
36% : He ultimately left Iran in October 2022.
34% : Tahbaz was caught in a dragnet targeting environmental activists while visiting Iran in January 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
30% : Iran sentenced both Namazi and his father, Baquer Namazi, to 10 years in the country's notorious Evin Prison on what the U.S. and U.N. say are trumped-up spying charges.
28% : Iran has transferred five Iranian-Americans from prison to house arrest, part of a possible deal over billions of dollars of...Iran has transferred five Iranian-Americans from prison to house arrest, part of a possible deal over billions of dollars of Iranian assets frozen in South Korea.
28% : But Tahbaz remained stuck in Iran.
23% : Iran says security forces then caught Sharghi on the country's northwestern border and re-arrested him as he tried to flee Iran while free on bail.

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