US-Iran prisoner swap: the detainees due to be freed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : US and Iran expected each to free five people under deal also involving transfer of $6bn in unfrozen Iranian assetsThe US and Iran are expected to each free five detainees under an exchange agreement that also involves the transfer of $6bn in unfrozen Iranian assets from South Korea.
49% : In 2017 Emad Sharghi and his wife moved to Iran from the US.
48% : For years, Iran has demanded the release of Iranians detained in the US.
42% : It is not clear how many US citizens are detained in Iran, since families and the US government often do not wish to publicise the cases in the hope of quietly securing their release.
40% : He was not initially imprisoned but Iranian media reported he was arrested as he tried to flee Iran in January 2021.
38% : Months later his ailing father, Baquer, was detained after returning to Iran to visit his jailed son.
37% : There are over a dozen Iranian prisoners held in the US, mainly for "breaching the US sanctions on Iran", one Iranian judiciary source told Reuters.
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.
34% : The following are the US citizens imprisoned in Iran who will be released under the deal:Siamak Namazi, 51, a businessman with dual US-Iranian citizenship, was detained in 2015 by the Revolutionary Guards while visiting his family in Tehran.

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