TEHRAN, Feb 19 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, chided the U. S. for its “politically-motivated and opportunistic” approach towards the issue of exchanging prisoners.
In an interview with semi-official Mehr news agency, published yesterday, Nasser Kanaani said that, despite the agreement between the two sides on the prisoner swap, the U.S. government has not fulfilled its pledge, and conditioned the issue on other matters, including the talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, which has led to a halt in the prisoner swap process.
Kanaani stressed that, Iran’s approach on the prisoner swap is a humanitarian one, adding that, Iran is ready to implement the agreement to help the Iranian nationals incarcerated in the United States, to return to their families, as soon as possible.
Kanaani said, the United States has detained a number of Iranian nationals on the alleged charges of having “violated Washington’s sanctions” on Tehran, which Iran considers baseless, as it sees the U.S. unilateral sanctions “illegal and cruel.”– NNN-IRNA
