Baquer Namazi, an elderly American wrongfully detained in Iran, is on his way out of the country for surgery in the United Arab Emirates, his family said in a statement on Wednesday. Namazi ...

Baquer Namazi, an elderly Iranian-American who was blocked from leaving Iran can now do so, and his son Siamak Namazi, 50, was also released from detention. According to a statement from UN ...

Baquer Namazi was arrested in 2016 when he went to Iran to see his jailed son. Their family had pleaded for the 85-year-old former UNICEF official to be allowed to travel to undergo urgent surgery ...

Five Americans wrongfully imprisoned in Iran for years have been freed as part of a U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange that gives ...

It's the latest in what has been decades of prisoner swaps between the two countries. The Americans include Siamak Namazi, ...

“Iran must allow Baquer and Siamak Namazi, Emad Sharghi, and Morad Tahbaz to return home to their loved ones,” Patel said. CNN’s Kylie Atwood contributed to this report.

He had advocated closer ties between Iran and the West. Iran sentenced both Namazi and his father, Baquer Namazi, to 10 years in the notorious Evin Prison on what the U.S. and U.N. say are trumped ...

Five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained have all been moved into house arrest in Iran after previously being imprisoned there, U.S. officials said Thursday. Four of the five were ...

DUBAI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran will each free five detainees under an exchange agreement that also involves the transfer of $6 billion unfrozen Iranian assets from South Korea.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An 85-year-old Iranian-American held by Iran left the country Wednesday ... IRNA news agency published video of Baquer Namazi boarding a Royal Oman air force ...