Kerry: Sanctions Relief ‘Not Directly Related’ to Hostage Release, But It Helped

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KERRY: "--that five Americans who have been unjustly detained in Iran have been released from custody and they should be on their way home to their families before long. Shortly. The president will have more to say about their release later. But I can tell you one thing, while the two tracks of negotiations were not directly related and they were not, there is no question the pace and the progress of the humanitarian talks accelerated in light of the relationships forged and the diplomatic channels unlocked over the course of the nuclear talks, and certainly in the time since we've reached an agreement last July there was a significant pickup in that dialogue."