On Saturday, the daughter of an Iranian environmentalist imprisoned said she no longer trusted President Joe Biden to liberate her father.
Morad Tahbaz, an Iranian-American with British citizenship, has served five years of a 10-year spying term.
He was briefly released to house arrest with an electronic tag in March 2022 when two other dual nationals, including British-Iranian humanitarian worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, were permitted to leave Iran.
His lawyer said he was released in July, but his daughter said he was back in jail.
“I think being told since Biden has taken office that our loved ones are a priority, and then seeing no action – it is hard to hold hope,” Tara Tahbaz told Reuters in Madrid, visiting family from the US.
SheU.Her family and two other U.S. caU.S.es in Iran hoped Biden would give them time to tell their tales at a meeting in Washington next month.
Her 67-year-old father had prostate cancer and COVID-19 three times in prison.
The US has U.S.ged Iran to release Tahbaz, Emad Shargi, and Siamak Namazi, imprisoned on espionage allegations it believes are unfounded.
On Saturday, State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tweeted, “We once again call on Iran to cease unjustly imprisoning foreign nationals for use as political leverage and to release U.S. citizens EU.S.Shargi, Morad Tahbaz, and Siamak Namazi.”
In 2016, oil executive Namazi was sentenced to 10 years for espionage, and working with the U.S., Shargi received a 10-year sentence in 2021.
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