"Successful" operation on Baqer Namazi's cerebral arteries; Jared Genser: Iran should allow my client to leave the country

In 2016, after traveling to Iran, Baqer Namazi was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of “collaborating with a hostile government.” After a few years, Baqer Namazi was released from prison due to medical problems and the inability to bear the prison sentence, and his prison sentence was commuted to a fine, but the American citizen, who had traveled to Iran to handle the legal case of his son Siamak Namazi, has been banned from leaving since then.

Last month, Namazi's family lawyer wrote a letter to the US President and the UN Secretary-General urging them to encourage the Islamic Republic's authorities to allow Baqer Namazi to leave Iran for surgery. Jared Genser had said that Baqer Namazi needed immediate surgery due to a blockage of 95 to 97 percent of his arteries.

On October 3, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted: "Baqer Namazi needs urgent surgery and the Iranian government should allow him to seek medical care to save his life."

“At a time like this, all of his family members should be around him,” said Mr. Blinken, noting that it had been about six years since Mr. Namazi had seen his children.

In his latest report to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Monday, Javed Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, referred to dual national prisoners in Iran and named Baqer Namazi. He said that Mr. Namazi's life is on the line due to his advanced age and the need for surgery.

Currently, in addition to Siamak Namazi and his father Bagher Namazi (Iranian-American citizens), several other dual and multi-national citizens are imprisoned in Iran, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Morad Tahbaz, Mehrdad Raouf, and Anousheh Ashouri (Iranian-British citizens), Ahmadreza Jalali (Iranian-Swedish researcher), Masoud Mosaheb and Kamran Ghaderi (Iranian-Austrian citizens), and Nahid Taghavi (German citizen of Iranian descent).