The United States and Iran have both denied reports that a prisoner swap deal has been reached in exchange for the release of $7 billion frozen Iranian oil funds under U.S. sanctions.
Iranian state media on Monday cited Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh as denying the prisoner swap.
The report further cited Khatibzadeh as insisting that Iran and the UK were not engaged in legal talks to free Iranian-British national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Trump believed that the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal-was not decisive enough in preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Besides pulling out of the deal in 2018, Trump restored and augmented sanctions to try to force Iran into renegotiating the pact with more concessions.
After Trump pulled out of the deal, Iran violated some of the pact's nuclear restrictions.
Jake Sullivan, U.S. national security adviser, said on Sunday that no deal had been reached with Iran in Vienna.
Monday, May 3, 2021
State Department Denies Reports of Iran Prisoner Swap for $7 Billion in Unfrozen Funds
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