US hikers’ release not imminent, says Iranian official

Americans will remain in jail ‘a bit longer’, despite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim they would be freed within days Two US nationals arrested while hiking in Iran and convicted of spying will not be released imminently as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had announced, a judiciary official has said. “The two Americans are going to stay in prison for a bit longer. Reports of their imminent release are wrong,” Iran’s English-language Press TV quoted the official as saying. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were sentenced in Iran last month to eight years in prison. Ahmadinejad told US media that they would be freed “in a couple of days” in what he called a humanitarian gesture shortly before he travels to a UN meeting in New York. Iran Middle East United States guardian.co.uk

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