Iran and the United States have reached an settlement to change prisoners, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian instructed state TV on Sunday, however Washington denied it as a “false” declare by Tehran.

“Regarding the issue of prisoner swaps between Iran and the U.S. we have reached an agreement in the recent days and if everything goes well on the U.S. side, I think we will witness a prisoner exchange in a short period,” Amirabdollahian mentioned.

“On our part everything is ready, while the US is currently working on the final technical coordination.”

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A White House official denied Amirabdollahian’s assertion concerning the prisoner swap with Washington, including that the United States was dedicated to securing the discharge of Americans held in Iran.

“Claims by Iranian officials that we have reached a deal for the release of the U.S. citizens wrongfully held by Iran are false,” a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council mentioned.

One of a number of Americans held in Iran is Siamak Namazi, a businessman with twin U.S.-Iranian citizenship, who was sentenced in 2016 to 10 years in jail for spying and cooperating with the U.S. authorities.

Emad Sharghi, an Iranian-American businessman was first arrested in 2018 when he was working for a tech funding firm, can be jailed in Iran, as is Iranian-American environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who additionally holds British citizenship.

Iranian sources instructed Reuters that two regional nations have been concerned within the sequence of oblique talks between Tehran and Washington for the discharge of prisoners.

For years, Tehran has sought the discharge of greater than a dozen Iranians within the United States, together with seven Iranian-American twin nationals, two Iranians with everlasting U.S. residency and 4 Iranian residents with no authorized standing within the United States.

The Islamic Republic, which is holding dozens of Iranian twin nationals and foreigners, has been accused by rights activists of arresting them to attempt to extract concessions from different nations. Iran has dismissed the cost.

Some Iranian media reported final week that Iran had reached a prisoner swap deal in change for the discharge of $7 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds underneath U.S. sanctions in South Korea.

In 2018, then-U.S. president Donald Trump ditched a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and 6 powers and reimposed sanctions which have crippled the Islamic Republic’s economic system.

The deal imposed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear actions in change for lifting worldwide sanctions. In response to Washington’s sanctions, Tehran has regularly violated curbs of the pact on its nuclear programme.

Indirect talks between Tehran and President Joe Biden’s administration on reviving the settlement have stalled since September. The deal imposed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear actions in change for lifting worldwide sanctions.