Tehran, Sep 25 (DPA) The Iranian judiciary Tuesday confirmed the release of the last jailed Iranian-American scholar Ali Shakeri on a bail amounting to one billion rials (about $107,000), ISNA news agency reported.
Shakeri, a peace activist, was released Monday night after having spent four and a half months in jail on espionage charges, but it was not clear whether he may also return home to the US, ISNA said.
Two other Iranian-American scholars – Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh – and journalist Parnaz Azima were jailed on the same charges but released earlier this month.
Esfandiari and Azima have already returned home but Tajbakhsh is still in Tehran.
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