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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Maziar Motamedi

Iran blames US for delay in prisoner swap deal

Iranian-American Siamak Namazi (R) in an undated photo with his father Baquer Namazi [File: Handout via Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Iran has blamed the United States for failing to reach an agreement over a prisoner swap deal amid reports that progress had been made after a lull of several months.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani on Monday told journalists that a deal was on the verge of being clinched through intermediaries at an unannounced time, “but then the US showed bad faith”.

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