The five Americans released by Iran under a deal made possible by the release of $6 billion in frozen oil revenues arrived in the United States on Tuesday, an American official told AFP.
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According to this source, who wished to remain anonymous, the five former prisoners ended up at a military base near Washington.
“Welcome home,” Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden’s national security adviser, responded to the US.
The former American prisoners, including one who had been imprisoned for eight years, and two members of their family left Tehran on Monday morning aboard a Qatari flight to Doha, where they made a stopover before taking off again, this time aboard an American plane for the United States.
A $6 billion transfer of Iranian funds frozen in South Korea was also announced in Doha, with Qatar as one of the deal’s brokers, and confirmed by Iran.
This agreement was announced on August 10, and the five Iranian-Americans imprisoned in Iran were then moved from their prison and placed under house arrest in August.