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US, Iran release prisoners in US$6 billion swap deal
Arch-foes the United States and Iran each released five detainees on Monday (Sep 18) in a prisoner swap deal that also gives Tehran access to US$6 billion in long-frozen oil funds. The five Americans freed by Iran, including a businessman arrested in 2015, landed in Doha just before 5.40pm on a Qatari jet, hours after the unblocked funds were credited to Iranian accounts in Qatari banks. The five were greeted on the tarmac before walking in the setting sun to a terminal building, three of them with their arms round each other's shoulders. One of them praised US President Joe Biden for ignoring the political backlash ... (full story)