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Iran open for prisoner swap if US unlocks assets: FM

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Iran is willing to make an extensive prison-swap deal with the US and to engage in direct talks if Washington releases $8 billion worth in frozen overseas assets, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Saturday, according to a Guardian report. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the FM said the prisoner swap issue was a “humanitarian” one, and that an agreement of some sort was made last year. Amir-Abdollahian said that the US was interested in linking the potential prisoner swap with the ongoing nuclear deal Vienna talks but insisted that Iran does not share that poi…

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