{"id":1502,"date":"2020-06-04T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/iran-releases-us-navy-veteran-michael-white-after-nearly-two-years\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:38:00","slug":"iran-releases-us-navy-veteran-michael-white-after-nearly-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/iran-releases-us-navy-veteran-michael-white-after-nearly-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Iran releases US Navy veteran Michael White after nearly two years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Iran releases US Navy veteran Michael White after nearly two years<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 4, 2020 |<\/span> 12:38pm <\/p>\n

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\n US Navy veteran Michael White in Mashhad, Iran.<\/span>
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\n President Trump announced Thursday that Iran has released US Navy veteran Michael White after detaining him for almost two years.<\/p>\n

White, 48, was detained in July 2018 after reportedly visiting a woman in the Iranian city Mashhad. He received a 10-year sentence for crimes including insulting Iran\u2019s theocratic leader Ayatollah Khamenei.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am to happ<\/a>y announce that Navy Veteran, Michael White, who has been detained by Iran for 683 days, is on a Swiss plane that just left Iranian Airspace,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWe expect him to be home with his family in America very soon. I will never stop working to secure the release of all Americans held hostage overseas! Thank you Switzerland for your great assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

White finished throat cancer treatment shortly before he arrived in Iran and there was significant concern for his health. He reportedly contracted COVID-19 while in prison.<\/p>\n

In a statement, White\u2019s mother Joanne White wrote that she was \u201cincredibly grateful\u201d to the Trump administration and the State Department, as well as Swiss diplomats who worked on the case.<\/p>\n

His mother also thanked former Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) for \u201crepeatedly raising Michael\u2019s case with Iranian officials and delivering my personal pleas\u201d and TV host Montel Williams. White wrote that she was represented for free by attorney Mark Zaid, one of the lawyers for the whistleblower who sparked Trump\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy prayers are with the Namazi and Tahbaz families and the families of so many other wrongfully detained Americans around the world,\u201d Joanne White wrote, referring to detained US citizens Baquer and Siamak Namazi and Morad Tahbaz.<\/p>\n

As president, Trump has focused heavily on winning the freedom of US citizens held overseas by authoritarian governments, including Egypt, North Korea, Turkey and Venezuela. He elevated his administration\u2019s former chief hostage negotiator, Robert O\u2019Brien, to be his national security adviser last year.<\/p>\n

Details of negotiations behind White\u2019s release were not immediately clear. On Tuesday the US returned to Iran scientist Sirous Asgari, who was charged but acquitted with stealing trade secrets in violation of US sanctions.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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