Despite Rising Tensions, Iran and U.S. Are Negotiating a Prisoner Release
The talks come even as the Trump administration intensifies its ‘maximum pressure’ strategy of sanctions against Iran and threatens to shoot Iranian gunboats in the Persian Gulf.
By Farnaz Fassihi
May 6, 2020
Iran and the United States are negotiating a deal that would release a United States Navy veteran held by the Iranian authorities in exchange for an Iranian-American doctor detained by the Americans, according to a senior Iranian official and a spokesman for the veteran’s family.
The negotiations are extraordinary in that they are happening at all, given the rising tensions, bombast and threats of military force that have punctuated the relationship between the Iranian government and the Trump administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/world/middleeast/Iran-American-prisoner-negotiations.html
