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Iran moved to release Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz as well two other U.S. citizens in exchange for eventual access to billions of dollars in blocked assets After months of quiet negotiations, Iran and the U.S. have reached an agreement that would see five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained released from custody and allowed to leave the country, ABC News has learned. A lawyer representing one of the detainees tells ABC News that four of the five were released from Iran's notorious Evin prison on Thursday and are currently under house arrest in the country. The move sets the stage for what a person familiar with the negotiations described as "a process" that -- if all goes well -- could ultimately see the four freed along with a fifth U.S. national who was already under house arrest and, according to the White House, had previously been held in prison. The detained U.S. citizens include Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz, as well as...

Four U.S. citizens crossed into Matamoros, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas just south of Brownsville, Texas, on Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said. The four Americans kidnapped in Mexico on Friday have been identified , as the FBI, federal partners and local authorities continue to investigate. The American citizens crossed into Matamoros, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas just south of Brownsville, Texas, in a white minivan with North Carolina plates on Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said said Sunday. A member of the Mexican security forces stands next to a white minivan with North Carolina plates and several bullet holes, at the crime scene where gunmen kidnapped four U.S. citizens who crossed into Mexico from Texas, March 3, 2023. Stringer/AP "Shortly after crossing into Mexico, unidentified gunmen shot the passengers of the vehicle. The gunmen herded the four U.S. citizens into another vehicle and fled the scene with them," according to ...