Iran says that "everything is ready" to implement a stalled Prisoner exchange deal with the United States, which Washington promptly denies as a "cruel lie". At least three US citizens are held in Iran's prisons, according to Iran's judiciary and the US State Department. The foreign minister's remarks came two days after a CNN interview with Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman held in Tehran's Evin prison since 2015. Namazi, 51, was blocked from leaving the country during a visit and later sentenced to 10 years in jail on charges of collaborating with a foreign government. His father Mohammad Baquer Namazi, a former UNICEF official, was arrested in February 2016 when he went to Iran to try to free his son. They were both sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in October 2016. Baquer, under house arrest since 2018, had his sentence commuted in 2020, and was finally granted permission to leave the country for medical treatment in October. At

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