Detained US Navy veteran reportedly freed by Iran: AP

The Associated Press has cited US officials that a Navy veteran detained in Iran has been released and started making his way home, with the first leg on a Swiss government aircraft. 

Iran PressIran news: Iranian officials have not commented on the matter yet.

The US special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a doctor to meet freed detainee Michael White and will accompany White to the United States aboard an American plane, the US officials said, according to The Associated Press.

White, of Imperial Beach, California, was detained by Iranian authorities in July 2018. He was convicted of insulting the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and posting private information online and was sentenced to a decade in prison.

In March, White was released from prison on a medical furlough. White was turned over to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents US interests in Iran. He was among tens of thousands of prisoners granted medical furloughs by Iran.

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