Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been released from Evin Prison in Tehran and has left Iran, his newspaper says in a statement Sunday.
The Post also says it is “pleased to see that Iran released four other Americans,” but gives no further details.
“We are relieved that this 545-day nightmare for Jason and his family is finally over,” says the statement signed by Post publisher Frederick Ryan. Rezaian leaves Iran on a plane with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, the statement says, without saying if any of the other Americans freed are also on board.
Iranian TV reports that four of the Iranian-Americans released by the US as part of the prisoner exchange are en route to Switzerland.
— AFP, Times of Israel staff
Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspondent for The Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, April 11, 2013. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
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