VOA interviews National Security Council spokesman John Kirby about Americans detained in Iran, Sept. 15, 2023. The U.S. hopes that with the transfer of blocked Iranian funds from banks in South Korea to Qatar completed, the five Iranian Americans held in the Islamic Republic will be home “in the coming days.” In an interview with VOA Persian’s Farhad Pouladi, John Kirby, the National Security Council's coordinator for strategic communications, also spoke about U.S. support for the Iranian peopl