Editor
Earlier this month, after more than two years of closed-door negotiations, the United States and Iran agreed to a prisoner swap deal, which once implemented, will see Tehran releasing five US-Iranian citizens in exchange for the release of several Iranians jailed in the US, and access to billions of dollars in frozen funds.
But questions about why the deal is only happening now, when some of the prisoners have been in jail for years, continue to linger.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
