The plan, now unfolding, involves a prisoner exchange and giving Tehran regulated access to billions of dollars.
Republicans on key foreign policy panels are criticizing an unfolding plan that would release Americans imprisoned in Iran because it involves giving the Islamist regime access to billions of dollars — with one calling it a “ransom.”
The plan involves Iran releasing five Americans in exchange for the U.S. freeing a handful of imprisoned Iranians, according to a person briefed on the deal by the State Department who was granted anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity.
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