A look at the prisoners Iran and US have identified previously in an exchange - WTOP News

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52% : Here is some...Iran and the United States have previously identified eight of the 10 prisoners in an exchange Monday.
51% : Here is some information about them:Siamak Namazi, an energy executive, was arrested in Iran in 2015.
49% : Siamak Namazi is the longest-held Iranian-American held in Tehran.
47% : Iran and the United States have previously identified eight of the 10 prisoners in an exchange Monday.
46% : His family says Iran had cleared him of spying charges in December 2019 after jailing and interrogating him for months.
45% : He had advocated closer ties between Iran and the West.
45% : Iran meanwhile has identified five prisoners it seeks released.
41% : The father was placed under house arrest for medical reasons in 2018 but prevented from leaving Iran despite his family's pleas that he travel to undergo heart surgery.
36% : He ultimately left Iran in October 2022.
35% : They are:-- Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, an Iranian charged in 2021 with allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent on Iran's behalf while lobbying U.S. officials on issues like nuclear policy;-- Mehrdad Ansari, an Iranian sentenced to 63 months in prison in 2021 for obtaining equipment that could be used in missiles, electronic warfare, nuclear weapons and other military gear;-- Amin Hasanzadeh, an Iranian and permanent resident of the United States whom prosecutors charged in 2019 with allegedly stealing engineering plans from his employer to send to Iran;-- Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, an Iranian charged in 2021 over allegedly unlawfully exporting laboratory equipment to Iran; and-- Kambiz Attar Kashani, an Iranian-American sentenced in February to 30 months in prison for purchasing "sophisticated, top-tier U.S. electronic equipment and software" through front companies in the United Arab Emirates.
34% : Tahbaz was caught in a dragnet targeting environmental activists while visiting Iran in January 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
28% : But Tahbaz remained stuck in Iran.
24% : Iran says security forces then caught Sharghi on the country's northwestern border and rearrested him as he tried to flee Iran while free on bail.
20% : Iran sentenced both Namazi and his father, Baquer Namazi, to 10 years in the notorious Evin Prison on what the U.S. and U.N. say are trumped-up spying charges.

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