A U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and started making his way home as part of a prisoner deal involving an American-Iranian doctor prosecuted in the United States
, U.S. officials said Thursday.
As White flew to Switzerland, prosecutors in Atlanta completed the U.S. part of the arrangement by asking a federal judge to sentence Florida dermatologist Matteo Taerri to time served on his conviction stemming from 2018 charges that he had violated U.S. sanctions on Iran as well as banking laws. “The United States government and the government of Iran have been negotiating the release of a U.S. citizen held in Iranian custody,” federal prosecutor Tracia King said at Thursday’s sentencing hearing. “This case, and more specifically the sentence recommendation, is directly related to these negotiations.”
Despite widespread speculation, White’s release was not related to the deportation to Iran this week of Iranian scientist Sirios Asghari, the officials said. White’s release was linked instead to the Taerri case.
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