Here are the prisoners Iran and US have identified previously in an exchange - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Siamak Namazi is the longest-held Iranian-American held in Tehran.
46% : Siamak Namazi, an energy executive, was arrested in Iran in 2015.
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.
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.
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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