still wants a more complete accounting of what bob levenson went through and exactly how he died, and the u.s. administration officials saying these sanctions are part of what they believe that the iranian government continues to wrongfully detain americans is actually urging americans not to travel to iran. jose. >> gabe, stay with us. i want to bring in ali arouzi, he's live in tehran today. it's good to see you. so what more do we know about the five iranians the u.s. is releasing, and gabe was talking to a little bit more about them. do we know more about them? >> hey, jose, as gabe mentioned, two of them have decided to remain anonymous. we're not sure why. they may have family members here and they don't want that sort of exposure. the three we know of is 51-year-old siamak namazi, who spent more time in an iranian prison than any citizen in history. shortly after he was arrested his father flew to iran and tried to secure his release. he was subsequently arrested. he's a man in his 80s. he was only released in 2022 on health grounds so if anybody knows what siamak namazi is fee

he invoked the memory of bob levenson, for whom the levenson act is named. >> as happy as we are at the freedom of our fellow citizens, we also are thinking today of bob levenson, who is not among them, and who is presumed deceased. bob's legacy, however, lives on. it lives on powerfully. >> the act allows the u.s. to impose sanctions on countries it feels has wrongly imprisoned americans. >>> a follow-up, authorities detaining a man in connection with a deadly ambush of an l.a. county democracy. >> that shooting happened saturday night. 30-year-old deputy ryan clinkunboomer was killed. he was found inside his patrol car. surveillance video captured around the time of that shooting shows a car pulling up to the deputy's suv and taking off. l.a. county sheriff robert luna called that car a vehicle of interest. nbc 4's i-team has learned the person who called in a tip recognized that car shown in a flyer. that person believes they had been in a road rage-type incident with that same car and driver last week. last night, mourners gathered outside of the station for a memorial. hundreds lit

sanctions against iran and the former president in relation to the levenson act, that was on behalf of bob levensonves it is now dead. present biden has made it clear in his statement that the united states will continue to hold iran accountable and take actions for iran's provocative actions in the region. many people have suggested that this perhaps leaves an opening or room to revive talks on the iran nuclear deal. what we have heard from the administration and other diplomats that really, nothing has moved in that direction. so, while this is a positive development it does seem to be very isolated to this one incident where the us thought they could get this deal in their favour that helps reunite americans with their families. . ., reunite americans with their families. ., ~ , ., , . families. thank you very much indeed. a notorious south african anti—migrant group has registered as a political party in time for next year's general election. �*0peration dudula' — which means operation "force out" in zulu — has vowed to take its campaign against undocumented foreign nationals to the country's p

and we also are thinking today above levenson who is not among them and who is presumed deceased bob's legacy, however, lives on it lives on powerfully. in the 11th snack, which has given us new and important tools to help track down on and deter the practice of taking americans unlawfully to try to turn them into political pons and to abuse the international system. and now, in that way, is one of the things that i heard in my conversation with, with our fellow citizens who are now free, is their own determination. their own commitment, their own conviction to continuing this work to making sure that other americans who are unjust be detained anywhere in the world. come home to date under this administration, we have now brought 30 americans home from places around the world where they were being unjustly detained. that work will continue. at the same time, we're going to be working every single day to take steps to make this practice more and more difficult and more and more of a burden on those countries that engaged. and you'll see in the days ahead here in new york at the united n