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Five US citizens freed by Iran arrive in Qatar after a prisoner exchange facilitated by the release of $6 billion in frozen oil proceeds. A Qatari jet carrying the five, along with two relatives, touched down at Doha International Airport just before 5:40 pm local time (1440 GMT). IMAGES
A Qatari jet carrying five US citizens who were held in Iran lands in Doha as part of a prisoner exchange. The United States confirmed a prisoner swap with Iran and said that President Joe Biden had granted clemency to five Iranians jailed or awaiting trial for non-violent crimes. IMAGES
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, speaking to the media for the first time since being released from six years of detention in Iran, says she believes "that the meaning of freedom is never going to be complete until such time as all of us who are unjustly detained in Iran are reunited with their families", citing Morad Tahbaz, other dual nations and prisoners of conscience. IMAGES
The plane carrying two British-Iranians who spent years detained in Iran lands in the UK early Thursday after London settled a longstanding debt over a cancelled defence contract with Tehran. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori touched down at RAF Brize Norton in southwest England at 01:08am (0108 GMT) after being released on Wednesday. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greet journalist Alsu Kurmasheva as she arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Kurmasheva is one of two dozen prisoners freed in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. IMAGES
US journalist Evan Gershkovich speaks with fellow journalists after being greeted by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris upon his arrival at Join Base Andrews in Maryland. IMAGES
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