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Trump says Iran has freed a detained US citizen

US - President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Iran has freed an American woman who had been detained since December 2024,...

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describing her release as a "gesture of goodwill”. Trump posted on Truth Social that she is now safely outside Iran and in good condition, though he did not name her or specify why she was held, beyond calling her "wrongfully detained." Attorney Jared Genser later identified the woman as Dena Karari, a US-Iranian citizen. She had been trapped in Iran on what Genser called "bogus charges" of collaboration with a hostile state and espionage. Her troubles stemmed from her work running the Children of Mehr Foundation, a nonprofit that helped impoverished Iranian children through private donations. Though never physically imprisoned, she was subjected to a coercive exit ban and interrogated dozens of times by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, suffering enormous physical and psychological hardship. Genser called on Iran to release all remaining wrongly imprisoned Americans and Iranian political prisoners. The release comes amid renewed tensions between Washington and Tehran. Trump recently ordered strikes against Iran and reimposed a naval blockade of its ports. This follows a May announcement that an Iranian US permanent resident had been freed after a 10-year prison sentence, and a memorandum of understanding signed last month aimed at ending the Middle East war — though hostilities have since resumed across the region. (Bssnews)

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