Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in a phone call with UN Secretary General Antnio Guterres said Iran considers prisoner swap as a humanitarian issue and is not will to tie it with nuclear talks. Referring to Daesh's recent terrorist acts in Afghanistan, Amirabdollahian expressed concerns overthe situation in Afghanistan. He noted ...

Al-Monitor - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi announced that Tehran has submitted to Washington a list of Iranian nationals held in US prisons, calling for their return home. "If there is a will [on the American side], we are hoping for the release of those individuals," he told reporters at an Oct. 21 press briefing in Tehran. According ...

AP Irans foreign ministry said Monday it has sent the United States a list of names it is demanding in a proposed prisoner swap, opening a potential new channel with Washington amid recent growing tensions. Iran did not detail the names it relayed, but Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he hoped to hear soon good news about the release of ...

Press TV - The Iranian Foreign Ministry says the Islamic Republic is still ready to negotiate a prisoner exchange with the United States. "The Islamic Republic of Iran, as also announced by [Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad] Zarif, is ready to start talks about a prisoner swap," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavisaid on Friday. The Iranian ...

IRNA Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran has received no proposals from the US on exchange of prisoners between the two countries. He made the remarks in an exclusive interview with IRNA in reaction to claims by certain US officials in this regard. Zarif stated that Americans have offered no proposal of the kind yet. I ...

Press TV - Iran says Washingtons failure to give a constructive response to the Iranian foreign ministers prisoner swap offer shows the US sheds crocodile tears for its nationals. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi made the remarks on Tuesday, referring to a proposal put forward by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister said that Iran has made no offer to US for talks and gave response to their suggestion of negotiations. Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks in an exclusive interview with US media 'CBS', saying 'We responded- we responded to the offer that they had actually made to engage and we are waiting for a reply.' In response ...

CBS News- In an interview with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan, Iran's top diplomat denounced American attempts to secure the release of U.S. citizens being held in Tehran. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister, said American "demands" are hampering "genuine dialogue." "The United States needs to approach this from a position ...

AP President Donald Trump is railing against law enforcement and lawmakers this time over an Obama-era payment to Iran. Trump says in a tweet that hes never gotten over the fact that Obama was able to send $1.7 Billion Dollars in CASH to Iran and nobody in Congress, the FBI or Justice called for an investigation! The Obama administration transferred ...

The Wall Street Journal - The Trump administration secretly reached out to Iran in December to propose creating a direct channel to negotiate the release of prisoners held by each side, U.S. officials and people briefed about the discussions said, marking the first U.S. diplomatic overture to Iran on the issue under President Donald Trump.  ...

MNA Following negotiations initiated by Iranian foreign ministry, embassy to Ankara, and justice ministry four Iranian convicts were returned to Iran. Four Iranian nationals trialed, sentenced and sent to jail in Turkey were extradited back to their home country. The four prisoners are supposed to serve the remainder of their sentence in local ...

IRNA The second stage of prisoner swap between Iran and Turkmenistan has been on the agenda and Iranian mission in Turkmenistan will do its best to address the concerns of prisoners families, an official said. Some 27 Iranian convicts kept in Turkmen detention centers were exchanged with three Turkmen nationals serving time in Iranian prisons, Iranian ...

Sputnik -Members of the Republican-controlled Congress have announced an investigation into whether terms of the 2016 Iran nuclear deal set by the Obama administration and involving the release of several Iranians from prison threatened US national security. The US House Oversight Committee, also known asthe Committee onOversight and Government ...

Huffington Post- In the final weeks of Barack Obamas presidency, administration representatives held secret negotiations with Iranian officials, aimed at securing the release of American citizens imprisoned in Tehran. The talks, described publicly for the first time by a lawyer working on behalf of two of the prisoners, began in mid-December ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 06 (MNA) A Principlist parliamentarian has criticized Jason Rezaians filing of a lawsuit for his alleged unjust arrest as a pretext to for a new wave of stealing nations assets in the US. Hossein Naghavi Hosseini, the spokesperson of Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told reporters on Thursday that the ...

House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said that US President Barack Obama needs to explain the secret concession between the United States and Iran on its nuclear program to the American public. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Reports that US negotiators made secret concessions toIran duringtalks onits nuclear program jeopardized the United States ...

WASHINGTONThe Obama administration agreed to back the lifting of United Nations sanctions on two Iranian state banks blacklisted for financing Irans ballistic-missile program on the same day in January that Tehran released four American citizens from prison, according to U.S. officials and congressional staff briefed on the deliberations. The U....

Azerbaijan has delivered22 Iranian inmates to the Islamic Republic in line with an agreement on swap of prisoners already reached between the two countries. The inmates were handed over to Iranian officials through Astara border checkpoint in northern Iran on Monday on the auspicious occasion of Eid al-Adha (the Feast of Sacrifice). Head of the ...

US Republicans are pushing through Congress several bills to prevent further return of Iranian money held since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Those measures are in response to President Barack Obama's cash payments to Iran this year following a nuclear accord which requires Washington to lift its sanctions on Tehran. Iran reportedly received ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- US has transferred $1.700 billion to Iran in cash using currencies other than dollars. First $400 million coincided with Irans release of American prisoners, US officials have acknowledged The Obama administration followed up a planeload of $400 million in cash sent to Iran in January with two more such shipments in the next 19 ...