Sworn enemies Iran and the United States still hold a number of each other’s nationals behind bars, despite the apparent release of an Iranian academic from a US prison overnight. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a plane carrying scientist Sirous Asgari had left America. – US Navy veteran Michael R. White was arrested in July 2018 and sentenced the following year to 10 years in prison after being convicted of insulting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and posting on social media under a pseudonym.
