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Americans were moved from tehrans Notorious Eivin Prison to a hotel guarded by iranian officials earlier today. Cnns Christiane Amanpour was first to break the story. She also spoke with one of the Iranian American detainees in an unprecedented interview from the prison back in march. She joins us now. Christiane, Siamak Namazi took a huge risk talking to you, but it does seem his message has been heard. Reporter well, lets hope so because he was desperate. And youre absolutely right. He told me desperate times, you know, mean you have to take desperate measures. And it was an extraordinary thing for somebody to be able to take a phone call out of eivin. He had been in nearly eight years, so he had some privileges like the ability to use a phone. But n ....
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. A voluntary interview suggests theres more to the interview. When you want that you want it written down so you can use it in the future maybe for perjury. In terms of that, if you are roger stone and youre watching how this is playing out, you and your attorneys as youre huddling, whats the thinking there. Well trks ha, its hard to k. Hes under scrutiny. If you were going to make a list three years ago of the Trump Associates who were most likely to be in trouble, it would be Paul Manafort, roger stone beneath him. So i think that the major jeopardy were seeing in this case, you have one shady lobbying case. Paul manafort. Russians indicted who will never see the inside of a u. S. Cour ....
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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so emotional. and you can just see it from a human perspective. but of course this is wrapped up in geopolitics, as we said. there are in fact five americans, it turns out. two of them have not been named. and so we don t know who actually they are. their families have not made their names public. we cnn got a response, a statement from the iranian government in which they said that their release was a humanitarian gesture on their behalf, but they specifically said that this was a agreement done through a third-party government between the u.s. and iran that would pardon and reciprocally release five prisoners. so obviously iran is waiting for five prisoners to be released from the united states. and importantly, this is absolutely only a first step until all the is are dotted and ts are crossed and the deal is complete. these americans will not be able to leave the country. cnn s christiane amanpour ....