Five Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran have been freed and flown out of the country, a senior Biden administration official and a Qatari official briefed on the matter have told CNN, as part of a wider deal that includes the US unfreezing US$6 billion ($9.3 billion) in Iranian funds.The US government has designated all five Americans as being wrongfully detained.They were being flown on a Qatari government jet to Doha, which left an airport in Tehran on Monday afternoon (late Monday AEST). Two relatives of the detainees were also on board, along with the Qatari ambassador to Tehran.
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