Europe News Desk!!! Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdolahian has said that Tehran and Washington have reached an agreement in the past few days on a prisoner exchange, a comment Washington rejected. Amir-Abdollahian made the remark in a live television interview on Sunday that if all went well on the Americans’ side, a prisoner exchange would take place in the coming days, according to Iran’s official news agency IRNA. He said Iran views the matter as a purely humanitarian issue, noting that the two sides signed an agreement indirectly in March 2022, laying the groundwork for its implementation, Xinhua news agency reported. Has occurred. “We maintain that everything is ready (to this end) at the moment,” he said. The US side is ensuring its final technical coordination and arrangements in this regard. Speaking to The Associated Press later in the day, US State Department spokesman Ned Price, however, called the Iranian foreign minister’s comments a blatant lie.
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