US-Iran prisoner exchange comes suddenly amidst tensions


by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – America and Iran performed a prisoner swap Saturday, with the Islamic Republic releasing an American grad student who had been in the fourth year of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage.

Xiyue Wang was convicted of two charges of espionage in 2016 when, as a Princeton University graduate student, he traveled to Iran to conduct research in its national archives on the Qajar dynasty that ruled Iran over three centuries.

Masoud Soleimani, the Iranian released by the USA, had been caught in 2018 illegally trying to export proteins used in stem cell research on his way to a visiting position at the Mayo Clinic.

Six other Americans are still detained in Iran.

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