Five Americans fly out of Iran in $6bn oil money prisoner swap

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : It is not clear that all of them want to return to Iran.
50% : In an elaborate and delicate diplomatic deal, months in the making, the five Americans were taken from hotels in Tehran to a plane bound for Qatar, the first stage in a journey that would take them on flights to Washington.
46% : The identities of five Iranians who are being granted clemency in the US have all been made public by Tehran.
45% : In the last week, there have been reports that three dual nationals were arrested in Iran.
44% : Tehran and Washington had agreed to swap five prisoners each, including the well-known conservationist Morad Tahbaz, a British-American citizen.
44% : The five Americans were previously transferred out of Evin jail in Tehran to various hotels in the capital.
43% : It is not clear if the deal will lead to a wider diplomatic breakthrough, or a new, less ambitious route to constrain Iran's civil nuclear programme, in which Tehran agrees to lower its stocks of highly enriched uranium.
42% : Iranian Americans, whose US citizenship is not recognised by Tehran, are often pawns between the two nations.
41% : Tahbaz was left in Iran when the British Iranian dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released as part of a deal negotiated by the then UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss.
40% : It was confirmed two weeks ago for the first time that Johan Floderus, an EU diplomat who travelled to Iran, has been jailed since April 2022.
39% : Conservationist Morad Tahbaz among US detainees released and on way to Qatar in first stage of journey to WashingtonFive US prisoners detained in Iran, some for nearly a decade, have left the country by plane to Qatar, as part of a controversial prisoner swap involving the unfreezing by the Biden administration of $6bn (£4.8bn) of Iranian oil money.
29% : Last week three European countries, including the UK, accused Iran of building stocks of highly enriched uranium that could have no possible civilian purpose.
26% : The US state department says the money that is being released is oil money owed to Iran and frozen by the Trump administration in 2018 when the US left the Iran nuclear deal.
25% : Republican senators in the US and some former Iranian political detainees have accused Joe Biden of striking a deal that will only encourage Iran to keep hostage-taking as a central part of its diplomatic arsenal.

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