{"id":112682,"date":"2023-08-22T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=112682"},"modified":"2023-08-22T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:24:55","slug":"iran-prisoner-swap-with-us-could-take-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/08\/22\/iran-prisoner-swap-with-us-could-take-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Prisoner Swap With US Could Take Two Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112683 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nasser-Kanaani-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nasser-Kanaani-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nasser-Kanaani-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nasser-Kanaani-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nasser-Kanaani-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nasser-Kanaani-48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Nasser-Kanaani.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 Iran said Monday it could take up to two months to complete a prisoner swap it has agreed to with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A specific time frame has been announced by relevant authorities, and it will take a maximum of two months for this process to take place,&#8221; Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran and Washington reached an agreement earlier this month in which both pledged to release five of each country&#8217;s citizens they have been holding. In addition, the U.S. agreed to release $6 billion in Iranian assets that have been held in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian assets were transferred to Switzerland&#8217;s central bank last week for exchange and transfer to Iran, South Korean media reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has moved four detained U.S. nationals it has held at Tehran&#8217;s Evin prison into house arrest, a lawyer for one of them said. A fifth was already under home confinement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some material in this report came from Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 Iran said Monday it could take up to two months to complete a prisoner swap it has agreed to with the United States. &#8220;A specific time frame has been announced by relevant authorities, and it will take a maximum of two months for this process to take place,&#8221; Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112685,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112682\/revisions\/112685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}