{"id":549434,"date":"2026-07-19T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549434\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:37:08","slug":"qatar-working-to-release-iranian-jewish-prisoners-in-order-to-get-closer-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/549434\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar working to release Iranian Jewish prisoners in order to get closer to US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Qatar<\/a> has been discreetly working with Iranian officials to release detained Jewish prisoners in Iran, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN News reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Qataris are doing this in order to garner goodwill with the United States<\/a>, sources told KAN.<\/p>\n

According to the report, five Jewish detainees were arrested recently by Iranian authorities on various charges, including criticizing the Islamic regime amid the backdrop of a military escalation between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n

In addition to Jewish prisoners, Qatar is further involved in efforts to secure the release of US citizens detained in Iran<\/a>, the report added.<\/p>\n

Tehran has released foreign prisoners before, with one recent release being an American prisoner detained in Iran since 2024, KAN reported. US President Donald Trump<\/a> thanked the Iranians on the occasion.<\/p>\n

In July 2025, two American Jews were arrested in Iran on suspicion of having ties to Israel, KAN reported.<\/p>\n

One of those arrested, an Iranian-American Jew from Los Angeles, was released on bail.<\/p>\n

The report noted that 33 additional Jews were arrested at the time on the same charges.<\/p>\n

The arrests were part of an Iranian government crackdown following Israel’s Operation Rising Lion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qatar has been discreetly working with Iranian officials to release detained Jewish prisoners in Iran, Israel’s public broadcaster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,76278,61833,43,17468,1823,40,38,41,39,2586],"class_list":["post-549434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iranian-political-prisoners","tag-jews","tag-news","tag-operation-rising-lion","tag-qatar","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}