Iran and the U.S. will soon carry out a prisoner exchange, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister said, in a deal that will likely involve dual U.S.-Iranian nationals detained in Tehran.
The U.S. denied the arrangement, with State Department spokesman Ned Price calling it a “cruel lie,” The Associated Press reported.
Earlier Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Iranian state TV: “If everything goes well on the U.S. side, we can witness an exchange of prisoners soon,” without giving a time frame.
