Five US prisoners freed by Iran land in Qatar following prison swap

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The prisoners were flown first from Tehran to Doha on a Qatar Airways jet today.
51% : Under the agreement, Doha agreed to monitor how Iran spends the unfrozen funds to ensure the cash is spent on humanitarian goods, such as food and medicine, and not any items under U.S. sanctions.
49% : Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi however said this week that Iran would decide how the money would be spent.
48% : ComThe five US prisoners released by Iran today as part of a controversial prisoner swap have arrived in Doha to begin their journey back to America.
46% : Among the Iranian prisoners is Reza Sarhangpour-Kafrani, a dual US-Iranian citizen who was jailed in February for supplying the Central Bank of Tehran with computer equipment and technology through a front company in the UAE, and, who was caught obtaining equipment that could be used in missiles and electronic warfare.
39% : The funds were blocked in South Korea, normally one of Iran's largest oil customers, when Washington imposed sweeping financial sanctions on Tehran and the cash could not be transferred.
33% : The Biden administration insists there are 'guardrails' on what Iran can spend the money on, but critics are now demanding to know how he or his administration will police how it is used.
28% : All had been imprisoned in Iran on what the Biden administration says are unsubstantiated spying charges.
13% : Ties between Washington and Tehran have been boiling since Donald Trump , a Republican, pulled the U.S. out of a nuclear deal between Iran and global powers when he was president in 2018.

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