U.S.-Iran Exchange Prisoners – A Year Since the Death of Masha Amini Sparked Protests
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
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Despite the happy news, the Biden administration is facing a lot of criticism for this deal, which also gave Iran access to about $6 billion of its oil revenue - money that had been frozen under sanctions targeting the government in Tehran.
The deal also comes just a little over a year after the death of a young Kurdish-Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini. Her death sparked the biggest anti-regime protests that Iran had seen in years.
NPR's Arezou Rezvani tells us about the legacy of those protests a year later. We also hear reporting from NPR's Michele Kelemen about the U.S.-Iran prisoner swap.
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| 0:21.8 | For lawyer Jared Genzer, it was the call he's been waiting for. |
| 0:34.0 | His client, American businessman, Ciamac Namazi, |
| 0:37.0 | who had been imprisoned for over eight years |
| 0:39.8 | and faced torture in Iran, was seen on video, |
| 0:42.6 | stepping off a plane in Doha, Qatar. |
| 0:45.9 | A moment later, he picked up the phone and called me |
| 0:47.6 | and he said, Jared, I'm finally free. |
| 0:50.7 | And for me, it was the culmination of a whole lot of work and effort |
| 0:54.4 | by so many people all around the world over so many years. |
| 0:57.3 | And I'm just so grateful today that the Namazi family |
| 1:02.4 | nightmare is finally over. |
| 1:03.8 | He said, Namazi, who had been passed over |
| 1:06.5 | in several previous prisoner swaps with Iran, |
| 1:09.5 | was feeling overwhelmed. |
| 1:11.2 | You know, overwhelmed by the fact that this day had finally come. |
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