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DUBAI, Sept 22 — Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a virtual address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York yesterday, amid heightened tension between the longtime foes. Washington has long demanded that Iran...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a meeting in Moscow September 2, 2019. — AFP pic

Washington has long demanded that Iran release US citizens including Iranian-American father and son Baquer and Siamak Namazi, who it says are political prisoners. “There are Iranians in US prisons who are there only because they refuse to betray their country . We are prepared to exchange all of them and all those who have been kept in jail,” Zarif said.The two sides have done two prisoner exchanges despite a deterioration in relations in 2018 when U.S. President Donald Trump exited Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers and re-imposed sanctions on Tehran that have crippled its economy.

 

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