Officially, Tehran said it is ready to exchange detainees with Washington.

According to APA, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amir Abdullahiyan said this in an interview with the US publication Al-Monitor.

The diplomat said that this exchange may not be related to the Joint Action Plan.

"We do not see a connection between this humanitarian issue and the Joint Action Plan.

We are ready to exchange detainees, because this is purely a humanitarian issue," the Iranian diplomat said.