Iran Releases 4 American Prisoners After Months Of Top-Secret Negotiations
Four American citizens, including a Washington Post reporter, who have been imprisoned in Iran are set to board a Swiss aircraft Saturday from Tehran to an undetermined location, where they will be freed as part of a prisoner release deal between the U.S. and Iran. The agreement is the result of long-running, high-stakes secret negotiations between the two traditional adversaries.
"Our citizens have not yet been flown out of Iran, so we donβt want to do anything that could complicate it," a senior administration official said Saturday. "But we are told the deal is done, that
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