Siamak Namazi

The US president warned that Iran would face ‘new and serious consequences’ if the detained Americans were not released.

(MEE) — Iran demanded on Saturday that the United States release Iranians detained there, a day after US President Donald Trump called on the Islamic Republic to release three US citizens.

(ZHE) With diplomatic relations between the US and Iran – a state Donald Trump has repeatedly accused of being a “state sponsor of terrorism” – already near rock bottom, things took another turn for the worse on Sunday, after a United States citizen accused of “infiltration” in Iran was sentenced to 10 years in prison.