WASHINGTON — The families of three US citizens held by Iran appealed to President Joe Biden on Wednesday to strike what could be a politically costly deal to bring their loved ones home.
More than two years after the US and Iran began indirect talks over a possible prisoner swap, Tehran is still holding three Iranian-Americans — Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz — on charges US officials say are baseless.
“Our Americans in Iran have been ignored for too long, and they have been intertwined with policy when they never should have been,” said Neda Sharghi, whose brother Emad was first imprisoned in 2018.
Sharghi took part in a demonstration Wednesday in front of the White House attended by the relatives of roughly a dozen Americans wrongfully detained by foreign governments such as China, Syria and Venezuela.
