“Relating to the problem of prisoner swaps between Iran and the U.S. we now have reached an settlement within the latest days and if the whole lot goes nicely on the U.S. facet, I feel we are going to witness a prisoner change in a brief interval,” Amirabdollahian mentioned.

“On our half the whole lot is prepared, whereas the US is at the moment engaged on the ultimate technical coordination.”

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A White Home official denied Amirabdollahian’s assertion concerning the prisoner swap with Washington, including that the US was dedicated to securing the discharge of Individuals held in Iran.

“Claims by Iranian officers that we now have reached a deal for the discharge of the U.S. residents wrongfully held by Iran are false,” a spokesperson for the White Home Nationwide Safety Council mentioned.

One in every of a number of Individuals held in Iran is Siamak Namazi, a businessman with twin U.S.-Iranian citizenship, who was sentenced in 2016 to 10 years in jail for spying and cooperating with the U.S. authorities.

Emad Sharghi, an Iranian-American businessman was first arrested in 2018 when he was working for a tech funding firm, can be jailed in Iran, as is Iranian-American environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who additionally holds British citizenship.

Iranian sources advised Reuters that two regional nations have been concerned within the collection of oblique talks between Tehran and Washington for the discharge of prisoners.

For years, Tehran has sought the discharge of greater than a dozen Iranians in the US, together with seven Iranian-American twin nationals, two Iranians with everlasting U.S. residency and 4 Iranian residents with no authorized standing in the US.

The Islamic Republic, which is holding dozens of Iranian twin nationals and foreigners, has been accused by rights activists of arresting them to attempt to extract concessions from different nations. Iran has dismissed the cost.

Some Iranian media reported final week that Iran had reached a prisoner swap deal in change for the discharge of $7 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds below U.S. sanctions in South Korea.

In 2018, then-U.S. president Donald Trump ditched a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and 6 powers and reimposed sanctions which have crippled the Islamic Republic’s economic system.

The deal imposed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear actions in change for lifting worldwide sanctions. In response to Washington’s sanctions, Tehran has steadily violated curbs of the pact on its nuclear programme.

Oblique talks between Tehran and President Joe Biden’s administration on reviving the settlement have stalled since September. The deal imposed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear actions in change for lifting worldwide sanctions.