DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The United States and Iran are in active talks over the release of prisoners, a person familiar with the discussions said t
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U.S. denies Iran claims of prisoner deal; U.K. plays it down
In this Jan. 26, 2021, file photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens during the talks in Moscow, Russia. On Sunday, May 2, 2021, Iranian state TV quoted an anonymous official that deals have been reached to release prisoners with Western ties held in Iran. The official said a deal made between the U.S. and Tehran will see a prisoner swap in exchange for the release of $7 billion in frozen Iranian funds. State TV also quoted the official saying a deal had been reached for the United Kingdom to pay 400 million pounds
FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2021, file photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens during the talks in Moscow, Russia. Iran s foreign minister apologized Sunday for recorded comments that were leaked to the public last week, creating a firestorm in Iran less than two months before presidential elections.(Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File) FILE - This undated file family photo, shows British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. On Sunday, May 2, 2021, Iranian state TV quoted an anonymous official that deals have been reached to release prisoners with Western ties held in Iran. The official said a deal made between the U.S. and Tehran will see a prisoner swap in exchange for the release of $7 billion in frozen Iranian funds. State TV also quoted the official saying a deal had been reached for the United Kingdom to pay 400 million pounds to see the release of Zagha
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Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of imprisoned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, sits outside the Iranian Embassy in London on June 21, 2019. File Photo by Andy Rain/EPA-EFE
May 3 (UPI) The tyrants who rule Iran clearly think it was a smart move to sentence Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the young British Iranian mother who had just completed a five-year jail term, to another year s imprisonment and a further one-year travel ban.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been falsely imprisoned from the outset, and the new charge of propaganda against the regime, based on allegations that she took part in a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy in London 12 years ago, is fatuous.
Iran Shouldn’t Use British Nationals as ‘Political Leverage,’ Says UK Minister
The Iranian regime shouldn’t use British dual nationals as “political leverage,” a British minister said on Monday.
James Cleverly, Britain’s Foreign Office minister for Middle East and North Africa, said that the incarceration of British-Iranian nationals such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is “completely unacceptable and inappropriate” and should be kept separate from ongoing legal disputes between the two countries.
It comes after Iranian state TV on Sunday quoted anonymous sources as saying a deal had been reached for the United Kingdom to pay £400 million ($552 million) to see the release of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.