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thank you. >> we'll get that message out, siamak. these few may finally have been released, but will they be the last american hostages taken by tehran? christiane amanpour, cnn, london. >> for the first time since it began selling tickets more than ten years ago. >> three, two, one, release, release, release. >> virgin galactic spacecraft launched with paying customers on board. the pricey journey is coming up next on "cnn newsroom." stay with us. how can you sleep on such a firm setting? gab, mine is almost the same as yours. almost is just another word for not as good as mine. save 50% on the sleep number lilimited edition smart bed. plus, , 36 month financing on select smart beds. shop now only at sleep number.

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CNN Newsroom Live

>> siamak namazi was america's longest held prisoner. he was arrested in 2015 while on a business trip, and then sentenced for ten years for, quote, collaborating with a hostile state. namazi, a dual citizen always denied the charge. this is the desperate appeal he made to us from inside evin president in our unprecedented conversation. >> i think the very fact that i've chosen to take this prison and appear on cnn from evin prison, it should just tell you how dire my situation has become by this point. i spend months caged. i spend months caged in a solitary cell that was the size of a closet, sleeping on the floor, being fed like a dog from under the door. and honestly, that was the least of my troubles. >> siamak's elderly father who is now 86 was lured to iran in 2016 with the promise of seeing his son.

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instead, he too was arrested, imprisoned for two years, and then barred from leaving the country. he was finally allowed out last october to seek medical treatment abroad. he has never stopped publicly campaigning for his son's release. >> i will never truly be free until siamak is here beside me. i could not be more proud of his courage, but i don't want him to have to -- any more. i want him to be safe. i want him to be free to live life he should have been living for the past seven years. i want him to be home. >> among the other hostages released along with namazi, a businessman emad shargi and morad tahbaz. they were held only as americans to be traded on the geopolitical market. before their release, their families tried to rally support. >> i know that they are

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The Lead With Jake Tapper

release. >> i will never truly be free until siamak is here beside me. i could not be more proud of his courage. but i don't want him to have to be brave anymore. i want him to be safe. i want him to be free, to live life he should have been living for the past seven years. i want him to be home. >> among the other hostages released along with namazi, a businessman emad sharghi and morad tahbaz, who have both been held for more than five years. they say they never so much as jaywalked and they were held only as americans to be traded on the geopolitical market. before their release their families tried to rally support. >> i know that they are desperate, that they are scared, and they feel like they've been forg forgotten. they have been determined officially by the department of state, by our secretary of state, as having been taken,

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The Lead With Jake Tapper

denied the charge, and washington accused iran of wrongfully detaining him. this was the desperate appeal he made to us from inside evin prison in our unprecedented conversation. >> i think the very facts that i've chosen to take this risk and appear on cnn from evin prison, it should just tell you how dire my situation has become by this point. i spent months caged. i spent months caged in a solitary cell that was the size of a closet, sleeping on the floor, being fed like a dog from under the door. and honestly, that was the least of my troubles. >> reporter: siamak's elderly father, bahre, who's now 86, was lured to iran in 2016 with the promise of seeing his son. instead, he too was arrested, imprisoned for two years, and then barred from leaving the country. he was finally allowed out last october to seek medical treatment abroad. he's never stopped publicly campaigning for his son's

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The Lead With Jake Tapper

detained by the iranians, for one reason and that is because they are americans. >> my father is an amazing person. is he is so calm, so kind, so generous, so noble. and i think just how my siblings and i have been able to carry ourselves through this surreal nightmare is just a testament to him and my mother and everything that they've instilled in us and who they are. >> former new mexico governor bill richardson, who advocates for some of these families, puts it bluntly. >> and this has happened in russia, venezuela, iran, north korea. it's a pattern. it's a new hostage diplomacy that we have to start confronting. >> just do what's necessary to end this nightmare and bring us home. thank you. >> we'll get that message out, siamak. >> these few may finally have been released, but will they be the last american hostages taken by tehran?

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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

my troubles. to this day -- i'm sorry, i didn't realize this was going to happen. >> siamak, under under extreme duress. [indiscernible] >> i suppose the positive side is some day some therapist is going to make -- [indiscernible] >> you are able to make quips, and there's some positivity to hearing that you're still robust and you still have your strength. i want to ask you -- >> absolutely. >> -- about the other americans. because you've said that you just don't understand why you have been left behind, particularly over a period of years in which other americans have been released in deals between iran and the united states.

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christiane amanpour by phone from inside iran's notorious evin prison. he has been behind bars since 2015 and claims he was left behind by the american gove government. in a plea to president biden, he asks not to be forgotten. >> you can imagine when we were given the opportunity to engage in this conversation, an enormous weight of responsibility, a bit of a fear about what might happen, but knowing it was siamak's decision because he felt so huutterly ale and so abandoned and out of options being in prison for seven years now. he calls himself a hostage. he refused any of the charges levelled against him. they forced him to spend 7 years of a 10-year sentence in evin prison. desperate he is to get a message to president biden, because he will be the one who has to agree to any deal with the iranian

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cnn this morning, tomorrow at 6:00 eastern. ♪. ♪. ♪. an american wrongfully detained in iran is starting a seven-day hunger strike and appealing to joe biden to take notice. in a letter he says he's starting the strike to mark seven years since he was left out of a prisoner swap between washington and tehran, for more we'll go to selma joining us london, good morning to you, talk to us about what this american who's now launched his hunger strike is asking for exactly. >> so this is the case of siamak, namazi, a u.s. citizens

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The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer

answer is how are you doing. he writes to biden, quote, how do i explain the devastation my family and i are left with after so many half-hearted prisoner deals crumbled last minute. how do i convey the excruciating terror that comes with not knowing when or how this nightmare will end, or even what comes next? >> president biden, siamak is begging you, my family is imploring you, please, please do what it takes to make those courageous decisions that we know you are capable of. >> reporter: now, wolf, a national security council folksfolks folks person told us it's outrageous from the iranian regime continues to detain americans to gain political leverage. they say they are working tirelessly to try to secure siamak's release, as well as two other americans wrongfully detained. we should note that u.s./iran

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