A shocking American comment on the Iranian announcement of a prisoner exchange agreement between the two sides

A White House official described the Iranian statements today that Tehran and Washington had reached an agreement to exchange detainees from both sides as false.

 According to a spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, “the United States is committed to ensuring the release of Americans detained in the Islamic Republic,” but at the same time he indicated that officials in Tehran are “making things up” and causing grief to the families of Americans of Iranian origin arrested in Iran. Tehran.

 And Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian had indicated earlier, during a televised statement, that Iran and the United States had reached an agreement to exchange prisoners, adding that he hoped that the exchange would take place soon.