Iran-American prisoners involved in swap, fund release

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In 2017, Sharghi and his wife moved to Iran from the United States.
48% : For years, Iran has demanded the release of a dozen Iranians in the United States, including seven Iranian-American dual nationals, two Iranians with permanent US residency and four Iranian citizens with no legal status in the United States.
40% : He was not initially imprisoned but Iranian media reported he was arrested as he tried to flee Iran in January 2021.
39% : The following are the prisoners in Iran who will be moved to house arrest:Siamak Namazi, a businessman in his early 50s with dual US-Iranian citizenship, was detained in 2015 by the Revolutionary Guards while visiting his family in Tehran.
39% : Months later, his ailing father, Baquer, was detained after returning to Iran to visit his jailed son.
38% : [DIRK WAEM/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images]Iran may free five detained US citizens as part of a deal, under which $6 billion in Iranian funds in South Korea would be unfrozen, and has moved four of them from jail to house arrest, Reuters reports.
36% : A former Iranian provincial governor and former UNICEF official who also has dual citizenship, Baquer Namazi was put under house arrest in 2018 on medical grounds and left Iran in 2022 for medical treatment.
36% : Most of them have been sentenced to jail for "violating US sanctions against Iran".

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