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Iran has released Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and three other Iranian-American prisoners in an apparent prisoner swap with the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rezaian<\/a>, 39, was jailed on charges, including espionage, last November.<\/p>\n

The US said it was offering clemency to seven Iranians being held in the United States for sanctions violation.<\/p>\n

Diplomatic talks are under way in Vienna as Iran anticipates the lifting of international sanctions as part of the nuclear deal agreed last year.<\/p>\n

News of the releases came after Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the sanctions would be lifted on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He is in Vienna for talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry over Iran\u2019s nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

The US citizens released on Saturday are being flown to Switzerland and will be taken to a US base in Germany for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

The other three Americans were named as Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari.<\/p>\n

A US official said a diplomatic channel was established \u201cwith the focus of getting our detained US citizens home\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran has also committed to continue co-operating with the United States to determine the whereabouts of Robert Levinson,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n


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According to the Associated Press news agency, Mr Levinson is a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007 while working for the CIA on an unapproved intelligence mission.<\/p>\n

A further 14 Iranians sought by the US would be removed from an Interpol wanted list, the US and Iran said.<\/p>\n

A fifth American, writer and student Matthew Trevithick, was also released from jail in Iran on Saturday, but his release was not part of the prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n

His family said in a statement published on the Iran Primer website<\/a> that he had been held at Evin prison in Tehran for 40 days. He had been studying languages in Iran, they said.<\/p>\n

The international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, is expected to confirm that Iran has scaled back its atomic activities in line with the agreement.<\/p>\n

Billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets are expected to be released and the sale of Iranian oil on the world market will again be permitted.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s press anticipates lifting of sanctions<\/h3>\n

Many newspapers have hailed \u201cgood days ahead\u201d for the economy, but the hardline press has lamented nuclear restrictions, with Vatan-e Emruz<\/strong> declaring closing the Arak reactor amounted to a \u201cnuclear burial\u201d.<\/p>\n

Moderate Iran <\/strong>and reformist Mardom Salari<\/strong> feared Saudi Arabia and US Republicans would try to sabotage the deal, the latter predicting that \u201cpowerful hands will try to boobytrap this path\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Conservative Hemayat <\/strong>said the nuclear deal would not \u201cresolve the problem with the village chief\u201d \u2013 referring to the US \u2013 and hardline Keyhan <\/strong>argued that the deal had not led to a let-up in US \u201canti-Iranian propaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n


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