(Reuters) Humeyra Pamuk - The U.S. urged Tehran on Monday to send a charter plane to take home 11 Iranian nationals whom Washington wants to deport. Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the U.S. Homeland Security Department, said Washington had been trying for months to return Sirous Asgari, an Iranian science professor who was acquitted in November of stealing trade secrets but was still in U.S. custody, and that Tehran was delaying the process. Iranian sources have said talks for a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Iran have been in the works for some time.
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