The last of the three Iranian- Americans who had been detained for alleged security reasons since May has been released on bail, state-run Press TV channel reported on Tuesday.
Ali Shakeri, a member of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at the University of California in the United States, was released Monday night on the bail of 1 billion rials (about 110,000 U.S. dollars), the report quoted an Iranian judiciary source as saying.
The Iranian-American peace activist had been detained since May on suspicion of harming national security, Press TV reported.
The other two Iranian-American scholars, namely Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh who had been jailed on the same charges, were released last month and earlier this month respectively.
Esfandiari, head of the Middle East program at the Washington- based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, left Iran early this month and returned to her job in Washington following her release on bail of 3 billion rials (about 323,000 U.S. dollars) .
Tajbakhash, an urban planning consultant with the New York- based Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, was released last week after posting a 1-billion-rial bail.
A fourth Iranian-American dual national, journalist Parnaz Azima who works for the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was allowed to leave the country after being trapped since January.
Azima was not jailed but the Iranian authorities confiscated her passport and accused her of working for a "counter- revolutionary" radio station.
Source: Xinhua
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