Five Americans head home in £5bn prisoner swap deal with Iran
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Five Americans who've spent years in jail in Iran are finally on their way home - after a prisoner swap deal was brokered by Qatar. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) The environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who also holds British nationality, was among them. Under the deal, which followed months of complex negotiations, the United States agreed to unfreeze almost £5 billion in Iranian oil money. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi described the release of the detainees as "purely a humanitarian action." ----------------------- Follow us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/
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