Wang was exchanged for Massoud Soleimani, a stem cell researcher arrested last year on charges of sanctions violations. ADAfter the exchange was made in Switzerland, Wang was flown to a U.S. air base in Ramstein, Germany, where U.S. physicians will examine him, a senior administration official said. AD“We will not rest until we bring every American detained in Iran and around the world back home to their loved ones,” he tweeted. ADIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed that Soleimani was released in the exchange and flew to Switzerland to take him back to Iran. Soleimani was arrested in 2018 when he arrived in Chicago en route to a visiting scholar position at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

Source: Washington Post December 07, 2019 12:26 UTC