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    5 Americans freed in Iran prisoner swap after years of captivity

    by Tracy Wilkinson and Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times Sep 18, 2023 6 minutes
    Roxanne Tahbaz holds a photograph of her father, Morad Tahbaz, outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on April 13, 2022, in London.

    NEW YORK — Five American citizens held for years in Iran under what U.S. officials describe as brutal conditions were freed Monday and allowed to fly out of the country, the result of months of secret negotiations, President Joe Biden said.

    In exchange, Iran will gain access to $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue that has been frozen, and five Iranian citizens imprisoned in the U.S. will be released.

    “Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home,” Biden said in a statement. “Still, too many remain unjustly held in Russia, Venezuela, Syria, and elsewhere around the world. We remain unflinching in our efforts to keep faith with them and their families — and we will not stop working until we bring home every American held hostage or wrongfully detained.”

    The former prisoners flew in a Qatari government airplane to Doha before continuing to Washington. Several senior Biden administration officials were on

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