Delicate Set Of Negotiations' Still Required To Secure Release Of Americans Detained In Iran: Kirby

 

Delicate Set Of Negotiations' Still Required To Secure Release Of Americans Detained In Iran: Kirby

President Biden secured a deal with Iran that involved transferring jailed Americans to house arrest in exchange for jailed Iranians, but it may be a long process before the five American hostages can safely return home, NSC coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said Thursday.

"When [will] they come home? We don’t know. They are out of prison, which is a good thing because Evin Prison is pretty intolerable. But they are not out of Iran yet, so we are really at the beginning of a set of negotiations to get them home," Kirby said on "The Story."

Four jailed Americans in Iran were moved to house arrest on Thursday, joining one other U.S. Citizen who was already been placed under house arrest in the country earlier this year. The transfer marks the first step in a tentative prisoner swap agreement between Iran and the U.S. If the deal is upheld and the Americans are allowed to return to the U.S., the Biden administration is said to have agreed to release roughly $6 billion in Iranian government assets blocked under U.S. Sanctions and a handful of Iranian nationals serving prison sentences for violating sanctions on Iran.