After lifting sanctions on Iran, US announces some restrictions remain in place

Minutes after the IAEA’s ruling, the United States formally lifted banking, steel, shipping and other sanctions on Iran.

While U.S. officials say Iran will only pocket about $50 billion of those assets after legal claims, the announcement of this new settlement could add fuel to the fire for critics who say the U.S.is funding a destructive regime.

Rezaian, 39, the Post’s Tehran bureau chief, was arrested in Iran in July 2014 and sentenced last November to a prison term. Missiles were not part of the nuclear agreement.

Cruz, speaking to Fox News Sunday, said, “Praise God that the prisoners are coming home” but Iran got the better end of the prisoner swap.

“Ordinary Americans and Iranians don’t understand what that means”, he says.

Here are details on the 11 Iranians identified by Reuters as part of the prisoner deal. “Saeed Abedini, and Amir Hekmati arrived in Germany, and soon they will be reunited with their families”, Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted.

“I don’t think we’re at a place where just because we have a nuclear deal with Iran, they’re now trustworthy or even an ally”, Kalik said. It also demonstrated a change in Iran. Another said “it’s his free determination where he wants to go”.

A plane (L) carrying Iranian-Americans, who left Tehran under a prisoner swap, lands at Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland January 17, 2016.

Obama pledged to counter vigorously Iran’s “destabilising behaviour” across the Middle East even while the U.S. engages with the Islamic Republic.

The Obama administration worked for almost 14 months behind the scenes to negotiate the prisoner trade. Still, the opening to Iran is a gamble that historians will debate for years, citing key moments and motivations that led to successful negotiations.

Rouhani also said the deal was a win for all negotiating parties and all factions inside Iran.

In 1979, Iran-U.S. diplomatic ties were severed after an Iranian revolution and ties were cut completely one year later when a group of Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage, according to the website of the U.S. State Department.

“With Iran, there was an opportunity for a deal”. But the cases of these seven men, six of whom also are USA citizens, haven’t gotten as much attention. “Iran is a competent actor”.

The White House did not identify the specific cases. “For Iran, the solution of the nuclear issue created a new atmosphere for extension of constructive dialogue and also the relationship between Iran and some other countries in the world”, he said.Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, said Iranians are largely optimistic, as the lifting of sanctions from oil sales to financial transactions will help reconnect the country to the global economy. It was a high stakes gamble, linking the success of his presidency to success in complex nuclear talks with world powers. The nuclear deal achieves both aims.

For Israel and Sunni states such as Saudi Arabia, Shiite Iran is seen as a destabilizing force. Republican presidential hopefuls pledged to scrap it on the first day in office. “Iran remains a very concerning actor, very confrontational”. The hospital is near the US military’s Ramstein Air Base.

Iran on Monday denounced “illegitimate” new sanctions by the United States on its ballistic missile programme, days after Tehran’s historic nuclear deal with world powers was confirmed.