• The daughters of two Iranian Americans were imprisoned in Iran.
• Hannah Shargi’s family has requested a meeting with Biden.
• Tahbaz stated he must return home from wrongfully jailed Americans.

The daughters of two Iranian Americans imprisoned in Iran for more than four years called on President Biden to bring their fathers home.

The children of Morad Tahbaz and Emad Shargi, two of the three Americans held in Iran on espionage allegations, applauded Biden for agreeing to the arrangement that secured Britney Griner’s return from Russia. They argued their dads’ cases should be prioritized.

Hannah Shargi told Andrea Mitchell of NBC News that her family has requested a meeting with Biden.

We’ve been asking for a meeting with him because, ultimately, he’ll make the decision. Shargi remarked, “I want to tell him about our dad, our sadness, and that this is an essential problem.

She called Biden “empathetic and amazing.”

Tara Tahbaz, daughter of Morad Tahbaz, who has been imprisoned since January 2018, told Mitchell that her family has also asked for a meeting with the president and that it is Biden’s “responsibility” to free the three Americans incarcerated in Iran.

Our commander-in-chief. Tahbaz stated he must return home from wrongfully jailed Americans.

“I’ll let him decide,” she said.

She continued, “This is a humanitarian issue, not policy or politics.” We must put patriotism before politics and make difficult decisions, as he did with Brittney Griner, to bring them home.

Roger Carstens, the U.S. presidential envoy for hostages, justified the “hard decision” that led to Griner’s release.

“It’s unacceptable that an American sits in a foreign jail when they’re wrongly incarcerated, and sometimes that price is severe enough to pay,” Carstens said, alluding to Griner’s exchange for Viktor Bout, an international arms dealer serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S.

Carstens said Biden is aware of the families of Americans jailed in Iran but hasn’t met with them yet. Blinken briefs him weekly on these cases.

Carstens said Blinken always carries a card with the names of wrongfully detained Americans. Whether someone meets the president or not, I want you and them to know we’re still handling these cases.

Tara Tahbaz’s mother is banned from leaving Iran, therefore she and her siblings haven’t seen them in four years.

Tahbaz stated, “It’s been a nightmare.” “Every chance we get to hear their voices, you know, you treasure it,” she said.

Hannah and Ariana Shargi have campaigned since 2018 for their father’s release. They feared for his life amid recent protests at Tehran’s Evin Prison, where all three Americans are incarcerated. Human rights groups and the U.S. government say the three Americans are unlawfully jailed.

“He has Covid.” We assumed he died in the fire and riots at Evin Prison. Ariana Shargi: “We couldn’t reach him for two days.” “The riots were next door, so he inhaled tear gas.

“We’re so terrified that every day his possibility of coming home decreases,” she said.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she didn’t know of Emad Shargi’s detention. She stated Biden will free Americans wrongly held abroad.

Siamak Namazi has been imprisoned in Iran for seven years. In September, he asked the Biden administration not to attach the fate of imprisoned Americans to stalled nuclear talks with Iran.

“Placing U.S. hostages’ lives in Iran’s hands is careless and cruel.” First, free us! Namazi’s lawyer tweets.

His elderly father, Baquer Namazi, was imprisoned in 2016, then released in October.

Families of Americans incarcerated in Iran had high hopes that efforts to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal would gain their freedom. The talks stalled, and a wave of anti-regime rallies in Iran makes it doubtful the Biden administration will relax economic sanctions in exchange for renewed nuclear program limits.

Some MPs said Bout shouldn’t have been freed in the Griner deal.

Hannah Shargi said her family hoped Americans would “stand with President Biden” as they did in Griner’s case.

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