Qatar played a mediating role, facilitating the deal and overseeing the transfer of $6B in Iranian funds from South Korea to Qatar.
A plane sent by mediator Qatar flew the five US citizens and two of their relatives out of Tehran. / Photo: Reuters
"Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home," US President Joe Biden said in a statement on Monday, adding they"will soon be reunited with their loved ones — after enduring years of agony, uncertainty, and suffering." A plane sent by mediator Qatar flew the five U.S. citizens and two of their relatives out of Tehran after both sides got confirmation the funds had been transferred to accounts in Doha, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters.US officials received the five Americans after they disembarked from the Qatari plane at Doha, the Reuters witness said. Switzerland's ambassador to Iran accompanied them on the plane to Doha, the witness added.
The five Iranian Americans - one of whom had been held for about eight years on charges the United States had rejected as baseless - were due to board a US government aircraft in Doha and then fly home to the United States.
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