Separately, his father and former United Nations official Baquer Namazi, who was also convicted on charges of “collaboration with a hostile government,” has been allowed to leave Iran for medical treatment, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
The semi-official news agency also reported that “billions of dollars of Iran's frozen assets because of the US sanctions will be released soon.” It was unclear what motivated Tehran's decisions on both men. “The travel ban on Baquer Namazi was lifted on Wednesday on humanitarian grounds and due to the requests made for his treatment abroad,” said Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's deputy judiciary chief, state media reported.
His son Siamak, 51, has been held in Evin prison since 2015 and was convicted of the same charge as his father in 2016. The US government has described the charges against both as baseless. Iranian Americans, whose US citizenship is not recognised by Tehran, are often pawns between the two nations, now at odds over whether to revive a fraying 2015 pact under which Iran limited its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief.
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