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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 ....
For that amount of oil that iran delivered to it. but because of the global sanctions regime they were not allowed to return it. so in this case apparently that s the case. but you know, again, in terms of getting these prisoners back we don t know all the deals, all the you know, all the details. and it will take some time. it s very difficult obviously. the u.s. still trying to negotiate for yvonne gershkovich and paul whelan who have been detained unfairly in russia. do you see this as a way for the iranian regime to try to counter the rightly negative reputation it has for iran s morality police cracking down, beating, imprisoning and executing women and supporters for women not covering their hair after nearly a year of mass protests following the death if not murder of mahsa amini? i think the two are separate, like it s separate from the nuclear deal and all those others. ....