US to demand freeing of American detainees in Iran as part of Islamabad negotiations - report

“America agrees to turn over 1000 random Americans as payment to Iran.”

>At least six Americans are believed to be held, though the identities of all of them have not been made public. >Here is what is known about those at the centre of the potential release deal: >Two of the US citizens being detained, Kamran Hekmati, 61, and Reza Valizadeh, 49, were in Evin Prison, a notorious complex in Tehran that holds thousands of prisoners, including many held on political charges, the Post noted. I'm shocked this hasn't been presented more to the US public at large. I've heard virtually nothing in regards to these 6 individuals. >Valizadeh, the journalist with US govt-funded channel >Reza Valizadeh is serving a 10-year sentence. He worked as a reporter for [Radio Farda](https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-farda-journalist-valizadeh-prison/33239877.html), the Persian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which is a US government-funded broadcaster. He became a US citizen in 2022. Valizadeh was arrested by the IRGC and sentenced in December 2024 to 10 years in prison on charges of “collaborating with a hostile government”. His appeal was rejected in January 2025. and >Kamran Hekmati is a Jewish Iranian-American who emigrated to the United States after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and built a life in Great Neck, New York, running a jewellery [business ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-hekmati-a8209375/)in Manhattan. >In July 2025, he travelled to Iran to visit family. When he tried to leave through Tehran's airport, authorities confiscated his passport. He was arrested two months later. >The charge against him is related to an Iranian law that prohibits its citizens from visiting Israel. Hekmati has argued he'd done so 13 years earlier, to attend his son's bar mitzvah. He was then charged a second time in December, accused of having met with agents of Israeli spies from the Mossad abroad.

Australia had this problem when one of our academics went to Tehran and got arrested by the IRGC and thrown in jail for being a “spy”. It took two years to get her out. The different factions inside Iran would say different things and pretend they didn’t have her.

Boo!

More likely wants it to be Obamasbad - he wants nothing to do with the capital of ‘one of those countries’, really.

Fr. This smells of desperation to claim any sort of win. “We’ve used the greatest army the worlds ever seen, to secure the greatest deal the US has ever even heard of. Fifty years, you heard it here first folks, FIFTY YEARS of free transport through the Straight of Hormuz for all US citizens. Not a single one of you will pay a penny. Nobody thought we could do it, they questioned WHY we would do it. Well they aren’t asking now! You won’t see the fake news loving media covering this - ZERO dollars, yes ZERO. The Iranians, they were so thankful, they released our prisoners - the fastest prisoner exchange the worlds ever seen. They said, ‘Thank you Mr. President’ for our help - they never thanked Barrak HUSSIEN Obama, I can tell you that. Fake news media won’t tell you that. Greatest victory the world has ever seen.”

I beg of you. Go live under the Islamic Republic and then come back and make stupid comments like this.

They’re influential family members of the IRGC and Iranian power brokers elite. It’s going to be a prisoner swap. Their visas and asylum claims has been denied and revoked by the Secretary of State himself.

Might be?

These aren’t military personnel from the war. These are citizens and journalists that have been prisoners for years.