American prisoners held in Iran not discussed during negotiations, Iranian official says

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson told CBS News on Monday that the negotiations between the U.S. and Tehran that have led to the agreement set to be signed on Friday did not include any discussion of the fate of Iranian-American prisoners in the country.

There are believed to be four U.S. nationals held in Iran, two of whom have been named publicly as journalist Abdolreza “Reza” Valizadeh, 49, whom the U.S. State Department formally designated as “wrongfully detained” by Iran in May 2025, and Kamran Hekmati, 61, who was arrested in July 2025 while visiting family in Iran.

Nonprofit groups say they are tracking at least two other U.S. nationals believed to have been detained in Iran, whose identities CBS News cannot confirm.