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55% : Iran says the program is peaceful, but it now enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.
47% : (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP, File)In this photo released by Nour News on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, Iranians Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, right, and Mehrdad Moein Ansari pose at Doha airport in Qatar after being released from prison in the United States in a prisoner swap with Iran.
46% : (AP Photo/Lujain Jo)FILE - In this photo released on Aug. 11, 2022, by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani speaks in Tehran, Iran.
46% : Some $6 billion of Iranian assets once frozen in South Korea is in Qatar, a key element for a planned prisoner swap between Tehran and the United States, an Iranian official said Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.
45% : Associated Press writers Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran; Matthew Lee, Paul Haven, Aamer Madhani and Michelle Phillips in New York; and Eric Tucker and Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report.
44% : (AP Photo/Lujain Jo)From left, Siamak Namazi, Emad Sharghi and Morad Tahbaz walk away from a Qatar Airways flight that brought them out of Tehran and to Doha, Qatar, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.
44% : (Nour News via AP)Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in New York Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, at a news conference as he announces that five Americans who had been jailed for years in Iran have been freed.
43% : Five prisoners sought by the U.S. in a swap with Iran were freed Monday and headed home as part of a deal that saw nearly $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen.
43% : Five prisoners sought by the U.S. in a swap with Iran were freed Monday and headed home as part of a deal that saw nearly $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen.
43% : Five prisoners sought by the U.S. in a swap with Iran were freed Monday and headed home as part of a deal that saw nearly $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen.
43% : Five prisoners sought by the U.S. in a swap with Iran were freed Monday and headed home as part of a deal that saw nearly $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen.
42% : Nour News identified the two in Doha as: Mehrdad Ansari, an Iranian sentenced by the U.S. to 63 months in prison in 2021 for obtaining equipment that could be used in missiles, electronic warfare, nuclear weapons and other military gear, and Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani, an Iranian charged in 2021 over allegedly unlawfully exporting laboratory equipment to Iran.
41% : (AP Photo/Lujain Jo)Secretary of State Antony Blinken pauses as he speaks in New York Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, at a news conference as he announces that five Americans who had been jailed for years in Iran have been freed.
40% : The $5.9 billion in cash released to Iran represents money South Korea owed Iran - but had not yet paid - for oil purchased before the U.S. imposed sanctions on such transactions in 2019.
40% : From left, Morad Tahbaz, Siamak Namazi, and Emad Sharghi walk away arm in arm from a Qatar Airways flight that brought them out of Tehran and to Doha, Qatar, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.
40% : (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, Pool)Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes a question in New York Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, at a news conference as he announces that five Americans who had been jailed for years in Iran have been freed.
39% : Iranian government officials have largely concurred, though some hard-liners have insisted, without evidence, that there would be no restrictions on how Tehran spends the money.
38% : "Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home," Biden said in a statement released as the plane carrying the group from Tehran landed in Doha, Qatar, on Monday.
38% : Two of the imprisoned Americans' family members, Effie Namazi and Vida Tahbaz, who had been under travel bans in Iran, also were on the plane.
35% : "Iran and the U.S. have a history of prisoner swaps dating back to the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis following the Islamic Revolution.
33% : However, tensions are almost certain to remain high between the U.S. and Iran, which are locked in disputes over Tehran´s nuclear program and other matters.
33% : Officials said five prisoners sought by the U.S. in a trade with Iran flew out of Tehran on Monday, part of a deal that saw nearly $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen.
29% : (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, Pool)Emad Sharghi, Morad Tahbaz and Siamak Namazi, former prisoners in Iran, walk out of a Qatar Airways flight that brought them out of Tehran and to Doha, Qatar, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.
26% : The deal has already opened Biden to fresh criticism from Republicans and others who say the administration is helping boost the Iranian economy at a time when Iran poses a growing threat to American troops and Mideast allies.
25% : From left, Emad Sharghi, Morad Tahbaz and Siamak Namazi, former prisoners in Iran, walk out of a Qatar Airways flight that brought them out of Tehran and to Doha, Qatar, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.
23% : WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans detained for years in Iran arrived home Tuesday after being freed as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

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