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Tehran urges US to immediately release jailed Iranians  

Iran's demand came as expectations were growing for a prisoner swap alongside an EU-mediated possible agreement on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.  
A picture taken on Jan. 17, 2016, shows a medical bus escorted by German and American police leaving the US air base.

A senior Iranian judiciary official called on the United States to free Iranian individuals held in American jails, mostly over bypassing US sanctions levied against the Islamic Republic.     

"The US has arrested tens of innocent Iranians under the pretext of circumventing its cruel and inhumane sanctions," tweeted Deputy Judiciary Chief for International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi.  

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