U S Asset or U S Adversary? Why Qatar Looks Worryingly Like Both realclearinvestigations.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from realclearinvestigations.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper June 4, 2024 21:00:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
denied the charge, and washington accused iran of wrongfully detaining him. this was the desperate appeal he made to us from inside evin prison in our unprecedented conversation. i think the very facts that i ve chosen to take this risk and appear on cnn from evin prison, it should just tell you how dire my situation has become by this point. i spent months caged. i spent months caged in a solitary cell that was the size of a closet, sleeping on the floor, being fed like a dog from under the door. and honestly, that was the least of my troubles. reporter: siamak s elderly father, bahre, who s now 86, was lured to iran in 2016 with the promise of seeing his son. instead, he too was arrested, imprisoned for two years, and then barred from leaving the country. he was finally allowed out last october to seek medical treatment abroad. he s never stopped publicly campaigning for his son s
for five iranian prisoners here in the united states as well as more than $6 billion in frozen iranian assets being unfrozen? i think i m going to refrain from getting too much into the specifics of the negotiations, jake. they re ongoing. today was a important first step but it was just a first step. they are out of prison but they are not out of iran. and so we re going to be a little careful here about what we put in the public space about what the negotiations are going to look like. once they get home and they re safe and sound back with their families where they belong then i think we ll be a little bit more at liberty to talk with more specificity on what the negotiations look like. but those negotiations are active, jake. they re not done. just to jog everyone s memory out there in 2016 u.s. officials confirmed that president obama secretly approved a $400 million cash transfer to iran. this was also previously frozen iranian assets. on the same day iran released four ameri