Iranians freed by U.S. in prisoner swap aren't going anywhere

The Iranians freed by the U.S. in a prisoner swap between the two countries aren’t going anywhere, according to reports.

Six of the seven men have American-Iranian dual citizenship and all of them were convicted or charged with crimes related to selling sensitive equipment to Iran in violation of strict trade embargoes.

And all of them decided to stay in the U.S., officials familiar with the process told ABC NEWS.

Meanwhile, former Marine Amir Hekmati, one of the three just-released Americans, was thankful to be coming home.

“Like I said, I feel alive for the first time. It’s like being born again, and I just really feel proud to be an American,” Hekmati, 32, said from the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Hekmati was imprisoned in August 2011 after being accused of spying for the CIA.



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