AFP Reports:

Iran on Tuesday released US-Iranian academic Haleh Esfandiari, detained since May on security charges, on bail of three billion rials (320,000 dollars), the ISNA news agency reported.

“A bail of three billion rials had been set for Haleh Esfandiari. After it was deposited she was released,” the agency cited a source in Tehran’s prosecution office as saying.

There was no official confirmation of the report.

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