Iran set to free 5 U.S. citizens in exchange for access to billions of dollars in blocked funds

Four Americans held in a notorious prison in Iran have been freed and placed on house arrest, an attorney for one of the prisoners said Thursday.

The US is also releasing five Iranian prisoners in addition to the $6 billion.

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The blocked funds are held in South Korea and I am pretty sure the Biden administration or any administration would be forced by diplomatic necessity to permit their release eventually. Might as well get something out of it and try to move towards the kind of relations that allowed the nuclear deal which prevented them from getting nuclear weapons until Trump blew it up and failed to negotiate a new one.