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Iran Frees Five American Prisoners in $6 Billion Deal

As part of the deal, billions in frozen Iranian funds were transferred to Qatar.

Iranian American environmentalist Morad Tahbaz and Roxanne Tahbaz.

Roxanne Tahbaz/via Reuters

By Martha Mercer

Five Americans whom the U.S. government had designated as being wrongfully detained in Iran were on a flight out of the country Monday after being freed, CNN reports. Citing a Qatari official, the network reported that two unnamed Americans, along with Emad Shargi, Morad Tahbaz, and Siamak Namazi—who had all been jailed for more than five years—were aboard a Qatari government plane bound for Doha. The U.S. unfroze $6 billion in Iranian funds as part of the deal to free the prisoners.

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