US citizen barred from leaving Iran needs life-saving surgery abroad, family says
The son of an American citizen held in Iran urged Tehran to lift a travel ban on his ailing 84-year-old father.
Baquer Namazi, a US citizen barred from leaving Iran, requires immediate surgery abroad to prevent a fatal stroke, his son told reporters Monday.
“In the past several weeks, my family’s worst fears have come to a head,” Babak Namazi said in a virtual press briefing on Monday.
“My father has already lost so much precious time,” he said. “I’m begging Iran to let him spend whatever small amount of time he has left with his family, my brother Siamak included.”
Baquer and his son Siamak are among four dual Iranian-American citizens whose release the Biden administration has been trying to secure as part of indirect negotiations with the Islamic Republic.
