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Americans were moved from tehrans Notorious Eivin Prison to a hotel guarded by iranian officials earlier today. Cnns Christiane Amanpour was first to break the story. She also spoke with one of the Iranian American detainees in an unprecedented interview from the prison back in march. She joins us now. Christiane, Siamak Namazi took a huge risk talking to you, but it does seem his message has been heard. Reporter well, lets hope so because he was desperate. And youre absolutely right. He told me desperate times, you know, mean you have to take desperate measures. And it was an extraordinary thing for somebody to be able to take a phone call out of eivin. He had been in nearly eight years, so he had some privileges like the ability to use a phone. But n ....
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 ....
Special system only used for humanitarian purposes. and that s what we re talking about here. it s a pre-existing account that was set up in the previous administration which they allowed other countries to set up that has not been made accessible to the iranians. they d be able to have some access to it but only for humanitarian purposes. five americans who are part of this deal that we know of being released from the evin prison, four of them, and put in house arrest in a hotel. the fifth one already was in that house arrest. right. removing them from the equation, we certainly hope that they all get out of iran and back to the united states, are there any other american citizens or american green card holders still detained in iranian prisons unfairly other than those five? these are the five that the state department have designated as wrongfully detained. one american also taken by iran in 2007 of course, robert levinson, is believed to be dead. is there any new informat ....