Reuters - An Iranian-American doctor has returned to Iran, Iranian state media reported on Monday, after a swap deal between Tehran and Washington that resulted in the release of a U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran. In a slight thaw in U.S.-Iranian enmity, the United States allowed Majid Taheri to travel to Iran as part of the swap deal. Michael ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Michael White expelled due to disease exacerbation, human rights considerations: Iranian official Director General of Counterintelligence of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence said on Saturday that the US citizen, Michael White, who had been imprisoned on security charges in ...

MNA Director General of Counterintelligence of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence said on Saturday that the US citizen, Michael White, who had been imprisoned on security charges in Iran, has been deported to the US due to disease exacerbation, human rights reasons. The Iranian official explained that White was an American military person who ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Campaigners contrast British-Iranians plight with return of prisoner Michael White to US Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national detained by Iran since 2016, has been told her furlough from prison will be extended beyond the previous cut-off date of early June, according to her lawyer. But she ...

RT - US President Donald Trump has praised Tehran for releasing US Navy veteran Michael White, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2018, hinting at a breakthrough that may pave way for a new nuclear deal. I just got off the phone with former American hostage Michael White, who is now in Zurich after being released from Iran. He will be ...

Tehran Times - Iran confirmed on Friday that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had discussed prisoner releases with former U.S. ambassador Bill Richardson. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Friday they had discussed the release of U.S. Navy veteran Michael White months ago. We have always responded positively to humanitarian ...

Reuters - Switzerland confirmed its role on Thursday in the humanitarian gesture that led to the release of two detainees, American Michael White and Iranian Majid Taheri, saying it stood ready for further facilitation as a neutral intermediary. White, a U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran since 2018, was freed on Thursday and was on his way back ...

IRNA - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani in a message referred to President Donald Trumps disastrous situation inside and outside the US, saying the prisoner swap is not the result of negotiations with the US. #Trump's situation is so disaster; in international arena, catastrophe of Covid management &...

MNA Tehran has announced the release of a US citizen, Michael White, who had been imprisoned on security charges in Iran. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Mr. White was released on Thursday night with Islamic kindness and based human rights considerations and left Tehran to join his family soon. Mousavi noted that since White had ...

Reuters - A Swiss foreign ministry spokesman declined to comment on Thursday on tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump saying that Michael White, has left Iranian airspace on a Swiss plane. I cant say anything about this, Sebastian Hueber, chief spokesman for the Swiss foreign ministry, told Reuters from the capital Bern. White, a U.S. Navy veteran ...

Reuters - Switzerland, which represents the United States in Iran, has asked Tehran to extend the medical furlough from detention of U.S. Navy veteran Michael White, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday, as the coronavirus continues spreading. Pompeo also thanked Switzerland for seeking humanitarian furloughs from detention by Iran ...

The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi: Iran and the United States are negotiating a deal that would release a United States Navy veteran held by the Iranian authorities in exchange for an Iranian-American doctor detained by the Americans, according to a senior Iranian official and a spokesman for the veterans family. The negotiations are extraordinary ...

ISNA The American citizen detained in Mashhad is not facing espionage or security accusations, Iranian deputy Foreign Minister for Iranian Expatriates and Parliamentary Affairs, Hossein Panahi-Azar said. Earlier, news of detention of an American citizen in Mashhad was broadcasted, which was followed by an Iranian Foreign Ministrys announcement,...

The Guardian - Iranhas confirmed it is holding a US navy veteran, Michael R White, at a prison in the country, making him the first American known to be detained under Donald Trumps administration. Whites detention ratchets up the rising tension betweenIranand the US, which under Trump has pursued a maximalist campaign against Tehran that includes ...