US and Iran Push Back Reports of Prisoner Exchange
US and Iran officials have each pushed back reports in Tehran’s media of a prisoner exchange, with Iranians held in the US swapped for political detainees in Iran.
Iranian State TV claimed four American political prisoners would be exchanged for four Iranians in the US, detained over sanctions violations, and the release of $7 billion in frozen Iranian funds in South Korea.
In addition, Anglo-Iranian charity Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, held since April 2016, would be traded for £400 million ($552 million), held by the UK over a pre-Revolution deal for Chieftain tanks that were never delivered.