Five Americans head home in £5bn prisoner swap deal with Iran

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.

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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."

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