Two US citizens who were jailed in Iran on spy charges in 2009 have been released from prison.
Two Americans who were jailed in Iran on spy charges have been released from prison.
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested, along with Sarah Shourd, in mid-2009 along Iran's border with Iraq where they said they were hiking.
Ms Shourd was freed on $500,000 bail in September 2010 and returned to the US.
Mr Bauer and Mr Fattal were found guilty of illegal entry and espionage and were sentenced last month to eight years in prison.
"Immediately after their release, the two American nationals left for Mehrabad airport," the official IRNA news agency reported.
"The Swiss ambassador to Tehran and a delegation from Oman were present when the two American prisoners were released," the report added.
Oman - a US Gulf ally that has good relations with Iran - agreed to pay the two men's bail, which was said to be $400,000.
The Swiss embassy in Tehran has represented US interests in Iran since Washington cut off diplomatic relations with Tehran shortly after its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Ahead of his annual trip to the United Nations, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told US media last week that the men
would be freed "in a couple of days" as a humanitarian gestur
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rte.ie
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