{"id":483499,"date":"2025-10-08T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483499\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:31:14","slug":"iran-releases-french-german-teen-cyclist-lennart-monterlos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483499\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran releases French-German teen cyclist Lennart Monterlos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PARIS &#8212; PARIS (AP) \u2014 Iran has released a teenage <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-iran-cyclist-monterlos-detained-351d12802e49b3d799b196a0a03e406a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French-German cyclist<\/a> who disappeared in June while riding across the country, the French foreign minister said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cLennart Monterlos is free!\u201d the minister, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, posted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Monterlos, 19, has since been reunited with his family in France, Barrot&#8217;s ministry said in a statement. It did not say when he returned or give other details about his release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Monterlos was taken into custody in Iran in mid-June. France has accused Iran of engaging in hostage diplomacy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Two other French nationals, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-iran-prisoners-hostages-kohler-paris-959527c5b28707b7dc6f89d08c3b70aa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00e9cile Kohler and Jacques Paris,<\/a> have been held in Iran for more than three years in prison conditions that France likens to torture and on charges that Paris says are without foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Barrot on Wednesday again called for their immediate release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS &#8212; PARIS (AP) \u2014 Iran has released a teenage French-German cyclist who disappeared in June while riding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[160218,3907,2000,299,36,4179,285,79,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-483499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-160218","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115339741369918538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}