FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The sister of former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati has arrived in Germany to meet him following his release from Iran as part of a prisoner swap. Hekmati's sister, Sarah Hekmati, was upbeat as she arrived Monday at Frankfurt airport before heading toward the U.S. military's ...
A group of Americans imprisoned by Iran have begun their journey home as family and friends await their arrival following delicate diplomatic negotiations. (Jan. 17)/ A U.S. aircraft stands behind an aircraft of Swiss airline Etihad Regional at Geneva airport in Switzerland on Jan. 17, 2016./ ...
The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates lined up in familiar positions Sunday when it came to the Obama administration's latest dealings with Iran: The Democrats supported Obama's efforts, while Republicans denounced them. Republicans noted that the Obama administration gave Iran ...
Several Americans have been released from Iran, but their journey is far from over./ From the future of U.S.-Iranian relations to the fate of another missing American, the release could mark just the beginning of more political maneuvering to come./ Here's the latest on the prisoner swap and ...
One of the Americans freed by Iran arrived home late Sunday, while several others were in Germany to receive medical treatment at a U.S. military hospital. published a picture of Matthew Trevithick and his mother at Boston's Logan Airport where he arrived late Sunday on a flight from Turkey. He ...
President Obama said this weekend's prisoner swap with Iran was a victory for American diplomacy. Americans freed from Iran are arriving in Germany to be reunited with their families. A fifth American, a student, was also released separately on Saturday. , the United States and five other world ...
A Falcon 900 of the Swiss Air Force is pictured on the tarmac of Geneva's airport, on January 17, 2016 (AFP Photo/Richard Juilliart)/ Geneva (AFP) - A Swiss plane carrying American prisoners released by Iran has landed in Geneva, a US official said on Sunday./ "Overwhelmed to greet Jason ...
A man disembarks from a Falcon 900 of the Swiss Air Force, after it landed on the tarmac of Geneva's airport, on January 17, 2016 (AFP Photo/Richard Juilliart)/ Washington (AFP) - Three of the four US citizens freed by Iran in a prisoner swap arrived Sunday at a US military base in Germany after ...
Three Iranian-American citizens freed by Iran in a prisoner swap with the United States have left Tehran and are flying to Bern in Switzerland, reports from both capitals said Sunday./ A fourth Iranian-American released as part of the deal, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, was not on board the ...
A U.S. aircraft stands behind an aircraft of Swiss airline Etihad Regional, at Geneva airport in Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2016. Reports state that a plane carrying the released US citizens has left Iran and is heading toward Geneva where the freed US citizens will change planes to fly to the USA./ ...
President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)/ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Americans long held in Iran will soon be reunited with their families and ...
"We actually shook hands, thinking we had an agreement," the secretary of state said./ Secretary of State John Kerry pauses while describing to reporters the past 14 months of negotiations that led to the release of four Americans from Iran./ ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Maryland -- A Swiss plane ...
Democrat Hillary Clinton's praise is measured. "We shouldn't thank Iran," the former secretary of state says./ Republicans running for President Barack Obama's job celebrated news of the from Iran on Saturday, while continuing to disparage the administration that negotiated the deal. News of the ...
Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post's Tehran Bureau Chief, is one of the Americans freed on Jan. 16, 2016, by Iran as part of a prisoner swap. Rezaian was arrested in 2014 on espionage charges and spent over 500 days Iran's Evin Prison./ A plane carrying four Americans freed by Iran as part of a ...
American Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian pictured while covering a press conference at Iran's Foreign Ministry in Tehran, on September 10, 2013 (AFP Photo/)/ Washington (AFP) - Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been released from Evin Prison in Tehran and has left Iran, his ...
By Michael Pearson, Elise Labott and Tiffany Ap, CNN/ Iran has announced the release of five detained Americans after international inspectors said Tehran is in compliance with a deal to restrict its nuclear program./ U.S. administration officials confirmed the news Saturday following reports ...
Despite the celebrated, “one-time only” deal the Obama administration made with Iran to release four detained Americans Saturday, two others are still believed to be imprisoned in Iran and weren’t part of the prisoner swap. The exchange for the four Americans – Washington Post reporter Jason ...
VIENNA (AP) — Four Americans and seven Iranians got tickets to freedom in a prisoner swap playing out alongside the kick-start of an accord lifting heavy international sanctions on Iran in return for its agreement to pull back its nuclear program. A fifth American was released separately./ The ...
File photo of Christine Levinson (R), wife of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, watching as her son Daniel Levinson displays a web print of his father's picture to journalists while attending a news conference at Switzerland's embassy in Tehran December 22, 2007./ One prominent name was missing ...
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - As part of a prisoner exchange with Iran, the White House said on Saturday it had offered clemency to seven Iranians who were convicted or facing trial in the United States. In addition, the Obama administration said it had removed Interpol detention requests and charges ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement that sanctions will be lifted on Iran after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verified that Iran has met all conditions under the nuclear deal, in Vienna January 16, 2016./ U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday ...
The release of four Americans detained by Iran won praise on Saturday from several Republicans running for president, along with condemnation of the Obama administration for its dealings with the Islamic Republic./ There were exceptions, with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul saying he was pleased "our ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S pardoned or dropped the charges against seven Iranians in a prisoner swap for the release of four Americans held by Iran. The seven were accused or convicted of violating U.S. sanctions. Six of them have dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship, and it is unclear if these ...
Iran has freed four U.S. prisoners as part of a prisoner swap, including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Marine veteran Amir Hekmati and Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, senior U.S. administration officials said Saturday, confirming reports first published in Iranian media./ A fifth man ...
Ali Rezaian, the brother of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, protests with supporters before delivering a petition to the Iranian Mission to the United Nations calling for his brother's immediate release on December 3, 2015 in New York City (AFP Photo/Andrew Burton)/ Washington (AFP) - ...
The following are short biographies of the four Americans being released Saturday by Iran, and the seven Iranians freed by the United States under a prisoner swap./ Rezaian, 39, had been The Washington Post's correspondent in Tehran since 2012. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, the ...
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. signs a yard sign at the conclusion of a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016./ Politicians, especially those among the many running for president, leaped at the chance to weigh in on the prisoner swap with ...
Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, April 11, 2013./ Iran and the United States agreed to release prisoners Saturday in a complex swap agreed just before diplomats in Vienna ...
Four Americans held in Iran, including a Christian pastor, a former U.S. Marine and a Washington Post reporter, have been freed in a prisoner swap also involving seven Iranians held in the U.S. for violating international sanctions, a U.S. official confirmed Saturday. Pastor Saeed Abedini, ...
Secretary of State John Kerry is in Vienna this morning, and Iranian state media are reporting the release of four Iranian-American prisoners. It may be part of a deal with Iran to lift sanctions./ Iran Says It's Releasing Four Iranian-American Detainees In Prison Swap/ Ali Rezaian, brother of ...
The United States granted clemency to seven Iranians and dropped charges against 14 more in exchange for the release of four Americans held in Iran, a US official said Saturday. "Through a diplomatic channel that was established with the focus of getting our detained US citizens home, we can ...
Three Americans freed by Iran on Sunday landed at Geneva airport in Switzerland around 1700 GMT (2 p.m. ET), a Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman told Reuters, and were due to head to a military base in Germany. Reuters correspondents saw the Swiss air force Dassault Falcon passenger jet land ...
Republican U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump gestures towards rivals Senator Marco Rubio (L) and Senator Ted Cruz (R) during the Fox Business Network Republican presidential candidates debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, January 14, 2016./ , at least two Republican ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio praised Iran's release of five detained Americans on Sunday, but sharply criticized the deal the White House made to win their freedom saying it would lead to more Americans being taken "hostage."/ U.S. President ...
Ali Rezaian, the brother of imprisoned Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian (shown in the poster), gives reporters an update on his brother's case at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2015. Rezaian is one of four Americans expected to be freed Saturday as part of a ...
File picture shows Iranian-American Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian while covering a press conference at Iran's Foreign Ministry in Tehran, on September 10, 2013 (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post's Tehran correspondent, and Saeed Abedini, a pastor from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Iranian-Americans who left Tehran on Sunday under a U.S. prisoner swap with Iran have arrived in Germany, a U.S. State Department official said on condition of anonymity. "We can confirm that the U.S. citizens who departed Iran this morning after being released from ...
A Swiss aircraft carrying three U.S. detainees freed by Iran and two family members will land in Switzerland late on Sunday afternoon, then travel on to a U.S. military base in Germany, a Swiss Foreign Ministry statement said. The statement did not say precisely where the aircraft would land in ...
A file picture shows Iranian-American Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian while covering a press conference at Iran's Foreign Ministry in Tehran, on September 10, 2013 (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran said Saturday that four Iranian dual nationals had been freed as part of a prisoner ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television is announced that the government has freed four dual-nationality prisoners. The Saturday report did not identify the prisoners but it comes amid speculation that jailed Washing Post bureau chief Jason Rezaian, a dual Iran-U.S. citizen who was ...
The U.S. plans to free seven Iranian citizens who were either serving time or awaiting trial for alleged sanctions violations in exchange for four Americans who were being held in Iran. A senior administration official said that pending the release of the American prisoners, the charges would be ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The departure of three American prisoners from Tehran, released as part of a swap following the lifting of sanctions on Iran was at least partly delayed by a "temporary misunderstanding" about whether two relatives were on the plane. There had been expectations that they ...
In this photo April 11, 2013 file photo, Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran./ reporter Jason Rezaian and three other dual-nationality prisoners, Iranian state-controled ...
The Americans imprisoned by Iran began their journey home Sunday, their friends and family awaiting emotional reunions, after delicate diplomatic negotiations that played out quietly in the shadows of international nuclear talks. A charter plane left Tehran for Switzerland with the Americans — ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several Iranian-Americans held in U.S. prisons after being charged or convicted for sanctions violations have been released, their lawyers told Reuters on Sunday, as part of a deal between Iran and the United States that also won the release of four Americans imprisoned in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of four American prisoners released by Iran, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, was not on the Swiss plane that left Tehran on Sunday, a senior U.S. official said. While it was not immediately clear whether he opted to stay in Iran or depart separately, an earlier State ...
No one had ever reported that Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari was in an Iranian prison./ learned Saturday that they'd be freed by Iran as part of a prisoner-swap deal with Iran. Three of them -- Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, and Christian ...
Four Americans and seven Iranians got tickets to freedom in a prisoner swap playing out alongside the kick-start of an accord lifting heavy international sanctions on Iran in return for its agreement to pull back its nuclear program. A fifth American was released separately. The negotiated ...
Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife have left Iran, the newspaper said on Sunday. "Friends and colleagues at The Washington Post are elated by the wonderful news that Jason Rezaian has been released from Evin Prison and has safely left the country with his wife, Yeganeh ...
A senior Iranian official said four Americans freed under a prisoner swap deal were still in Iran and denied earlier reports suggesting they had already left the country. "None of the four Americans, including (Washington Post reporter) Jason Rezaian have left Iran yet and when it happens it ...
Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday that detained Iranian-American citizen Jason Rezaian and his wife had left Iran as part of a prisoner swap deal with the United States. "Jason Rezaian and his wife Yeganeh Salehi have left Iran," Tasnim reported, without elaborating. Tasnim did not ...
The fifth American released by Iran on Saturday after 40 days in prison is a journalist and student who had traveled and worked in conflict-torn nations including Syria, Mali and Afghanistan, pausing along the way to try to start a rowing team. Matthew Trevithick was released from Evin Prison in ...
The U.S. and Iranian governments on Saturday announced a prisoner exchange that saw the release of four Americans held in Iran: Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine , pastor Saeed Abedini and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, whose name had not been previously made public. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four American citizens released by Iran in a prisoner swap with the United States have not yet left Iran while logistical steps are being completed, but a fifth prisoner, student Matthew Trevithick, has left the country, a U.S. official said on Saturday. "There are a ...
Iran has released five American prisoners, including a Washington Post reporter, a Christian pastor and a former U.S. Marine, U.S. officials said on Saturday./ The Americans released as part of a prisoner swap with Iran are Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, Saeed Abedini, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pardoned three Iranians charged with sanctions violations as U.S. authorities moved to drop charges or commute prison sentences on Saturday for five other men, part of a stunning and secretly negotiated deal that saw four Americans freed by Iran. The ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four American citizens released by Iran in a prisoner swap with the United States have not yet left Iran while logistical steps are being completed, but a fifth prisoner, student Matthew Trevithick, has left the country, a U.S. official said on Saturday. The official told ...
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian was held for 543 days on security charges his family and employer dismissed as absurd./ Iran released four Iranian-Americans in a prisoner swap Saturday, clearing away a long-festering source of US-Iran tension as the Iran nuclear deal reached a critical ...
(Adds comment from Faridi's lawyer, Bush comment, context) Jan 16 President Barack Obama pardoned three Iranians charged with sanctions violations as U.S. authorities moved to drop charges or commute prison sentences for five other men, according to lawyers, court records and people familiar ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One prominent name was missing from the list of Americans to be released by Iran on Saturday: former U.S. law-enforcement agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared while visiting the country in 2007. U.S. officials believe that Levinson, who suffered from diabetes, died in ...
Iran has released five American prisoners, including a Washington Post reporter, a Christian pastor and a former U.S. Marine, U.S. officials said on Saturday./ The Americans released as part of a prisoner swap with Iran are Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, Saeed Abedini, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans on Saturday expressed relief with Tehran's release of five Americans but renewed their attacks against President Barack Obama for entering an international nuclear deal that is expected to result in lifting economic sanctions against Iran./ Earlier on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of American Matthew Trevithick said their son had been released on Saturday from Evin Prison in Tehran. "We are profoundly grateful to all those who worked for his release and are happy for all the families whose loved ones are also heading home," the family ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eight Iranians jailed or facing charges in the United States for sanctions violations are to be released under an exchange deal for Americans held in Iran, according to a lawyer, court records and people familiar with the matter. The following is information on the eight ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors moved to drop charges against four Iranians accused of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran early on Saturday morning, federal court filings showed, as Iranian media reported Iran had released four Americans held in Iranian jails. The move came as major ...
Rezaian reportedly among them/ Iran on Saturday reportedly released Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and three other dual-national prisoners. Iranian state television said four dual-nationality prisoners were released, and a person close to Iran's judiciary said Rezaian was among them. The ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that American prisoners in Iran would be on their way home shortly after being released from custody by Iran under a prisoner deal. "I am very happy to say, as we speak, we have received confirmation that five Americans that have been unjustly ...
Iran has released four American prisoners, including a Washington Post reporter, a Christian pastor and a former U.S. Marine, Iranian television said on Saturday. The U.S. State Department declined to comment on the reports. The move came ahead of the expected lifting of international sanctions ...
The United States will release seven Iranian nationals currently serving jail terms in a prisoner swap with Iran, the English language service of the Islamic Republic's official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. "Prosecutor Abbas Jaafari told IRNA that four dual nationality Iranian-American ...
Iran has released four prisoners with dual Iranian-U.S. nationality, the Tehran public prosecutor was quoted as saying on Saturday, without giving further details. "In line with orders from the Supreme National Security Council and in the national interest, four Iranian dual national prisoners ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it had dropped an international request to detain 14 Iranians on trade violations and dismissed charges against them as diplomats prepared to lift sanctions against Iran. "The United States ... removed any Interpol red notices and ...
Iran has released four U.S.-Iranian dual citizens for prison, state television said on Saturday, naming them as Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini and Nosratollah Khosravi. State news agency IRNA said the United States would also release seven Iranian nationals from jail as part of a ...
Iran is releasing four American prisoners and the United States is releasing seven Iranians held for sanctions violations, U.S. officials said on Saturday in what they described as a humanitarian gesture, not a traditional spy swap. Iran is releasing Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, ...
Iran has released a fifth American, student Matthew Trevithick, a U.S. official said on Saturday, separately from four other Americans who were released in a prisoner swap as international sanctions were due to be lifted on Iran. It was unclear when Trevithick, a student, was released.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of Saeed Abedini, an American pastor held as a prisoner in Iran, said on Saturday that he had been released as international sanctions were expected to be lifted against Iran. "It is confirmed: Saeed is released from Iranian prison," Naghmeh Abedini wrote on Twitter.
Iran's Fars News Agency named three of the four U.S.-Iranian prisoners freed by Iran on Saturday as Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmat and Saeed Abedini. Hekmat is a former U.S. marine, and Abedini is a Christian pastor. The agency did not name the fourth freed prisoner. ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, second left, who is also Iran's top nuclear negotiator is surrounded by a group of lawmakers in an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that the official implementation of the ...
in a prisoner swap with the United States have left Tehran and are flying to Bern in Switzerland, Iranian state television reported Sunday. , the Washington Post's Tehran correspondent, Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor, former Amir Hekmati, and Nosratollah Khosravi, departed "on a special Swiss ...
The U.S pardoned or dropped the charges against seven Iranians in a prisoner swap for the release of four Americans held by Iran. The seven were accused or convicted of violating U.S. sanctions. Six of them have dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship, and it is unclear if these individuals will leave the ...
Matt Trevithick was a former rower at Boston University./ Matthew Trevithick, a Hingham native and Boston University graduate, was released by the Iranian government Saturday. , the 30-year-old was released after 40 days in Evin Prison in Tehran. Trevithick’s release was made independently from ...
Iran said businessman Siamak Namazi would not be returned and was silent on the status of former FBI agent Robert Levinson./ Two Americans whom officials believe are still being detained by Iran were not among four others recently returned as part of a prisoner exchange. On Sunday Tehran said it ...
Released just hours before International Atomic Energy Agency certified Iran has implemented nuclear deal Also freed was a Washington Post journalist, A former Marine from Flint, Mich., and a businessman Homecoming may be difficult for Saeed Abedini, whose wife publicly accused him of abuse/ ...
Tehran to free four US-Iranian dual nationals as part of a prisoner exchange; 7 Iranians in US prisons to be released./ Tehran correspondent, and Saeed Abedini, a pastor from Idaho, are among four dual Iranian nationals freed by Iran, the Fars News Agency reported on Saturday. The four Iranian ...
ترامپ به عنوان رئیس جمهور مستقر آمریکا، درگیری های کاری روزمره دارد ولی بلر، وقت بیشتری برای انجام این ماموریت دارد و احتمالاً نقش مستتقیم تری در هدایت غزه در دوران انتقالی خواهد داشت./ در طرح صلح کاخ سفید برای غزه، نامی به چشم می خورد که سال هاست کمتر در رسانه ها یادی از او شده است: توبی بلر ؛ ...
در صحنه ای معنوی و پرشور، یک جوان بریتانیایی تحت تأثیر ایستادگی و ایمان مردم نوار غزه، در میان تکبیر نمازگزاران، اسلام آورد. این اتفاق در یکی از مساجد شهر نابلس در کرانه باختری اشغالی رخ داد و با استقبال گرم حاضران همراه شد
عراقچی وزیر امور خارجه جمهوری اسلامی ایران در ادامه دیدارهای دو جانبه خود با همتایان خود و مقامات بین المللی با آنتونیو گوترش دبیرکل سازمان ملل متحد دیدار و گفت وگو کرد
بنیامین نتانیاهو در گفت وگو با شبکه خبری فاکس نیوز آمریکا با اذعان به این موضوع، مدعی شد که با این حال تل آویو از محل نگهداری اورانیوم غنی سازی شده ۶۰ درصدی ایران مطلع است و اطلاعات خود را با همدست آمریکایی خود به اشتراک خواهد گذاشت.
«دلسی رودریگز» معاون «نیکولاس مادورو» رئیس جمهور ونزوئلا شامگاه دوشنبه در سخنانی اعلام کرد: «رئیس جمهور مادورو به دلیل تهدید تجاوز از سوی آمریکا، وضعیت اضطراری اعلام کرده است.»
سید عباس عراقچی، وزیر امور خارجه جمهوری اسلامی ایران و برونو رودریگز، وزیر امور خارجه کوبا در حاشیه هشتادمین نشست مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل متحد با یکدیگر دیدار و گفتگو کردند.
رودریگز به دیپلمات های خارجی گفت: «رئیس جمهور مادورو فرمانی را امضا کرده است که به او به عنوان رئیس دولت اختیارات ویژه»می دهد تا در امور دفاعی و امنیتی در مواجهه با شوک خارجی اقدام کند.»/ معاون رئیس جمهور ونزوئلا گفت رئیس جمهور این کشور به دلیل تهدید «تجاوز» از سوی آمریکا وضعیت اضطراری اعلام ...
محمد الفرح، عضو دفتر سیاسی جنبش انصارالله یمن اعلام کرد: طرح دونالد ترامپ، رئیس جمهور آمریکا قابل اجرا نیست و هدفش به گوشه کشاندن حماس است و اینکه حماس مسئول جنگ تلقی شود.
دشمنان اسرائیل حقیقت سخت را فهمیده اند و آن این است هرآنکس که به ما حمله کند، بهای سنگینی پرداخت خواهد کرد اما کسانی که شریک ما می شوند، پیشرفت و امنیت بیشتر برای مردم خود رقم خواهند زد.
ترامپ، رئیس جمهور امریکا در کنفرانس خبری با نتانیاهو، نخست وزیر اسرائیل گفت: من درباره انعقاد توافقات ابراهیم مذاکره کرده ام و طرح من می تواند آن ها را گسترش دهد و ممکن است ایران به آن بپیوندد.