TEHRAN- Mehrdad Moein Ansari and Reza Sarhangpour Kofrani are two of the Iranian freed prisoners who were flown to Doha, Qatar, and then to Tehran on Monday.

In an interview, they expressed happiness over their arrival to the homeland. 

They also described their charges as unfounded on which they were detained in the U.S. for more than 800 days and likened them to jokes.    

The U.S. government purportedly said that they had tried to avoid sidetracking sanctions and deal a blow to American interests.    

“The U.S. judiciary tried to make me exhausted in a bid that I accepted all spurious charges,” one of the freed prisoners said. 

Five Iranians who had spent years in U.S. jails were released on Monday in a prisoner swap between Tehran and Washington mediated by Qatar.

“After a successful team effort, five innocent Iranian compatriots in American prisons will be free today and two of them will enter Tehran via Doha,” Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary general of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, wrote on his X account on Monday.

“The High Council for Human Rights, alongside the government and the judiciary, will remain determined to uphold the rights of Iranians abroad,” he added.