{"id":282080,"date":"2026-09-07T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/282080\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:46:09","slug":"jewish-iranian-american-dual-citizen-released-from-evin-prison-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/282080\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Iranian American dual citizen released from Evin Prison in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Kamran Hekmati, a Jewish Iranian American citizen who had been held in Tehran\u2019s Evin Prison, was released on Saturday, Iranian sources reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">However, a travel ban imposed on him remains in effect, preventing him from leaving Iran and returning to his home in the United States. Iranian authorities have not yet officially announced his release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Hekmati was arrested in July 2025 and imprisoned after a Tehran court convicted him over a visit to Israel 13 years earlier, when he traveled there to attend his son\u2019s bar mitzvah celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to his family and organizations assisting with the case, the trial lasted about 10 minutes and was conducted without a lawyer or witnesses present.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamran Hekmati, a Jewish Iranian American citizen who had been held in Tehran\u2019s Evin Prison, was released on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7252,1792,34,707,393,37,13827,975,36724,69],"class_list":["post-282080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-american-jews","tag-americans","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-islamic-republic","tag-israel","tag-jewish","tag-prison","tag-prisoner-release","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117230304086538056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}