4 hours agoUS: There is no deal with Iran for exchange of prisoners
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)US State Department spokesman Ned Price said today that it is not true that an agreement has been reached on the exchange of prisoners between the United States and Iran. This is not true. As we say, we always ask the question of the banned or missing Americans in Iran. We do not [...]
This is not true. As we say, we always ask the question of the banned or missing Americans in Iran. We will not stop until these people join their families”, Price said, broadcast Reuters.
US President Ron Klein's chief of staff also denied the report, which was broadcast on Iranian state television.
Unfortunately, that report is not accurate. There is no agreement on releasing those four Americans,”, Klein told CBS.
Earlier in the day, Iranian state television broadcast a report by Lebanese pro-Iranian television channel Al Majhadin that there would be an exchange of prisoners between the United States and Iran, and that Iran was seeking the release of seven billion dollars “frozen”.
State television also quoted an anonymous Iranian official as saying an agreement was envisioned under which Great Britain would have to pay $400m ($50m) for the release of a British woman of Iranian origin.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain dismissed the possibility.
