Iran has met nuclear deal obligations — Atomic agency chief
He said Iran has fulfilled its obligations included in last year’s nuclear deal.
It says the Iranian people hope that the “bitterness of filling the Arak reactor with cement will be accompanied with the sweetness of filling their table”, referring to the lifting of crippling global sanctions. Six of them have dual…
Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States will lift sanctions against Iran. Sarah Hekmati was Kildee’s guest at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
USA and Iranian officials announced that Iran was releasing four detained Iranian-Americans in exchange for seven Iranians held or charged in the United States. “The United States also removed any Interpol red notices and dismissed any charges against 14 Iranians for whom it was assessed that extradition requests were unlikely to be successful”, the department said. Iranian officials deny knowing where he is.
“Bob Levinson is still missing”, Rubio said.
Trevithick has left Iran, administration officials said in a Saturday evening (January 16) conference call. The Americans are about to leave Iran.
Jason Rezaian, a reporter with The Washington Post, has been detained since July 2014 when Iranian security forces raided his home and seized his wife and him. He was the newspaper’s Tehran bureau chief. He was traveling to Iran on a Central Intelligence Agency contract, according to theWashington Post.
Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine, was visiting family in Iran in August 2011 when he was detained. In fact, North Korea has done much the same thing, accusing several Americans of “spying” or trying to overthrow the government. His family says he has lost significant weight and has trouble breathing, raising fears he could contact tuberculosis. Hillary Clinton also welcomed the developments while saying Iran should not be thanked because it should never have detained the Americans. He had been sentenced to eight years in prison. Abedini was previously arrested in 2009 and released after promising to stop organising churches in homes. He didn’t name the Iranians but said the seven have already arrived in Tehran.
The American Center for Law and Justice, a Washington-based group dedicated to protecting religious and constitutional freedoms, reported that Abedini has endured torture during his imprisonment and was beaten by fellow prisoners in June. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., said in a statement Saturday.
Iranian convert to Christianity Saeed Abedini posing for a picture at an unknown location.
Naghmeh Abedini told The Associated Press that after she learned that Saeed Abedini was to be released, she woke her kids up and told them “Daddy was coming home”. Five Americans are free after a prisoner swap combined they spent nine years in captivity. The other one was a pastor. “He didn’t do anything wrong by the way”, Trump said, speaking of reporter Jason Rezaian.
“He’s been incarcerated for nine months for a crime that he’s just accused of but did not commit”, said lawyer Joel Androphy.
“Even though I stopped the media, I was always working with our government and different governments to get him out”.
In return, the U.S.is pardoning or commuting the sentence of an Iranian and six dual citizens.
Journalists, TV personalities and nonprofit workers lauded the move to release the prisoners Saturday.
The seven Iranian detainees in USA were named by Iran’s state news agency as Nader Modanlo, Bahram Mechanic, Khosrow Afghani, Arash Ghahreman, Tooraj Faridi, Nima Golestaneh and Ali Saboun. Iranian media outlets are reporting that Rezaian has been released.
The official report did not identify the prisoners, and USA officials would not immediately confirm the announcement.