The administration acknowledged they have received a request to pardon Bergdahl, but declined to comment on it.
It has been reported that the seven Iranians were among 19 for whom Tehran had originally requested pardons.
The Justice Department does not release a list of petitioners, but will say whether specific people have requested pardons or commutations.
LAST February, after long delays, the Justice Department sent President Obama hundreds of recommendations on requested pardons, each one carefully selected for a quick decision under standards for clemency that presidents have followed for decades.
This was unavoidably the case in Germany, where the Allies ran a de-Nazification program to retool the leadership, and where General Matthew Ridgway, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, requested pardons for all German officers who had been convicted of war crimes on the Eastern Front.
Rodham, 50, a Florida lawyer, requested pardons for convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali and businessman Glenn Braswell, and collected $200,000 from each of them after the pardons were granted.
On Monday, members of his family delivered a petition with over 500,000 signatures to 10 Downing Street, the home of the British prime minister, requesting pardons for 49,000 men who were similarly persecuted for their homosexuality.
Near the end of February, relatives of Alan Turing — the computer scientist who helped crack the Nazi Enigma code during World War II — delivered a petition with over 500,000 signatures to the British prime minister, requesting pardons for 49,000 men who, like Turing, were convicted of "gross indecency" for laws outlawing homosexuality in the UK. .
As a general rule, they do not discuss pardon requests.
The pardon request for Mr. Young, the aide said, went to the Justice Department, then forwarded to the White House.
The pardon request to Obama, first reported by the New York Times, was confirmed by White House and Justice Department officials who weren't authorized to discuss the matter by name.
