Iranian American held in Tehran for seven years granted temporary release

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% :"The [UN] secretary general is grateful that, following his appeals to the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, our former colleague Baquer Namazi has been permitted to leave Iran for medical treatment abroad," Dujarric said.
46% : Tehran has sought the release of a dozen Iranians held 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.
42% : It was also not clear whether it signals the possible furlough or release of other US citizens detained in Iran.
41% : The release of detainee Siamak Namazi comes as his father, Baquer Namazi, is being allowed to leave Iran for medical treatment, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
35% : Iran's semi-official news agency Nournews on Saturday reported that a regional country has helped Iran and the US mediate for the "simultaneous release of prisoners," shortly after Tehran allowed Siamak Namazi out of prison on a one-week furlough.
34% :Baquer Namazi was convicted in Iran of "collaboration with a hostile government" in 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
28% : An Iranian American businessman who has been imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years has been released from Tehran's Evin prison on a one-week, renewable furlough, the United Nations announced on Saturday.
22% :Iran said in August it was ready to swap prisoners with the United States after the American secretary of state, Antony Blinken, tweeted that "Siamak Namazi had now spent 2,500 days wrongfully detained" in Iran.

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