A senior US official denied reports of a breakthrough in negotiations for the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic abducted in Iraq in March 2023. The US is not willing to consent to the release of Mohammad Reza Nouri, a member of Iran's IRGC, implicated in the killing of an American citizen in 2022.

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