DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian-American doctor has returned to Iran, Iranian state media reported on Monday, after a swap deal between Tehran and Washington that resulted in the release of a U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran.
In a slight thaw in U.S.-Iranian enmity, the United States allowed Majid Taheri to travel to Iran as part of the swap deal. Michael White, an American who said he contracted the coronavirus while detained in Iran, was freed last week.
“The government of Iran has done an extreme effort in order to help people like me who were somehow accused of violating the U.S. sanctions,” Taheri told state TV after his arrival at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport, where he was welcomed by deputy Foreign Minister Hossein