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Donald Trump said Wednesday Iran had agreed to release an American citizen who was “wrongfully detained” since December ۲۰۲۴.
“She is now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition,” Trump wrote on social media, without naming the woman. “The United States of America appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!”
Trump’s announcement came as the US launched fresh strikes on Iran.
The woman is Dena Karari, a dual American and Iranian citizen, her lawyer Jared Genser announced on social media.
Genser said that he was “excited to report” that Karari, who was banned from leaving Iran after visiting her family in ۲۰۲۴, “is now safe and traveling back to the United States”.
“This would not have happened but for the extraordinary and relentless efforts” of the president, he added.
The New York Times reported last year that an Iranian American woman who was first imprisoned and prevented from leaving the country in December ۲۰۲۴, but released from custody, “works for an American technological company and runs a charity for underprivileged children in Iran”.
After the US joined Israel in bombing Iran in ۲۰۲۵, she was charged with espionage.
According to a ۲۰۲۳ Guardian profile of Genser, the human rights lawyer nicknamed “the extractor” has managed to free over ۳۴۰ prisoners of conscience from ۲۰ countries over the past two decades.
