A potential U.S.-Iran prisoner swap that could free four Americans is bringing attention to others with Western passports who remain imprisoned in Iran.
As the deal takes shape, the families and supporters of other foreigners detained in Iran, many on charges that advocates and activists describe as spurious and ploys for diplomatic leverage, have urged that their cases remain in the public eye.“The Islamic regime is targeting a certain group of people, individuals with foreign citizenship, in a systematic way,” said Gazelle Sharmahd, whose father, Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German citizen and U.S.
“We demand that they are also treated fair, that they are also safe,” Sharmahd said Wednesday at the vigil for Jamshid Sharmahd and Dalili outside the State Department.There are around two dozen known instances of Iranian citizens who are also Western passport holders jailed in Iran, though many more remain unpublicized, according to Carole Chedid, a board member of Hostage Aid, a D.C.-based advocacy group started by former detainees.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations said that five Iranian citizens in U.S. custody are to be released in the forthcoming deal. Tehran has not named the individuals. There are several Iranian nationals jailed in the United States for violating U.S. sanctions.
The daughter said both Germany and the United States have shirked responsibility for securing his release.Sharmahd and Dalili are classified as U.S. nationals because of their permanent residency. Gazelle Sharmahd said her father should be treated as any U.S. citizen in a hostage-taking case.“The Department works to ensure that any U.S.
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