Siamak Namazi is an Iranian-American businessman who has been detained in Evin Prison in Iran since October 13, 2015.
He was arrested while on a business trip to Iran in 2015 and was convicted on charges of cooperating with a hostile government, meaning the United States.
However, on September 18, 2023, Iran moved some American prisoners to house arrest as a step in a swap for their release, which included Namazi.
The swap also gave Iran access to oil money and the release of Iranians in the US.
Namazi had spent nearly eight years in Tehran’s Evin prison.
The Americans were reported to include Namazi, Emad Sharghi, a businessman, and Morad Tahbaz, a 66-year-old environmentalist.
The release of Namazi and other American prisoners
was a result of diplomatic efforts between the US and Iran.
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Siamak Namazi wife
Unfortunately, at the time of publishing this article, there was no publicly available information about Namazi’s wife.
Siamak Namazi arrest
Namazi was arrested in October 2015 during a business trip to Iran and was convicted of cooperating with a hostile government.
He was charged with having “relations with a hostile state,” referring to the US, where Namazi is a dual Iranian-US national.
Namazi was left out of a prisoner swap that took place when the Iran nuclear deal went into effect in 2016, and he was also excluded from subsequent deals.
Namazi has been imprisoned in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, where he has endured prolonged solitary confinement, denial of access to medical care, and physical and psychological torture.
As mentioned above, he embarked on a hunger strike to mark the seventh anniversary of being left behind in a deal that freed other Americans.
As of September 2023, Namazi was moved from Evin Prison to house arrest as part of a pending U.S.-Iran deal for the release of him and four other Americans held.
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