WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has freed a U.S. businessman who has been detained for two and a half years on charges of giving money to anti-government groups, according to ABC News reported on Saturday.
"Sometimes I feel calm, sometimes I feel angry," said Reza Taghavi told ABC after his release.
Taghavi, 71, was accused in May 2008 provided money for 200 dollars the United States to a group called Tondar, or Lightning. The businessman says he did so without any intention nothing and Iranian authorities finally agreed.
He languished in a cell which has 16 beds along with the inmates in the same prison with the two climbers from the U.S. that is Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer.
On Monday, Fattal and Bauer will be in jail for 444 days, equal to the time the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran from 1979 to 1981.
Iran's intelligence minister said it had no plans to release the two climbers, state media said Friday.
Taghavi, a native of Los Angeles, will return to the U.S. next week.
"I will begin to forget what happened," he told ABC. "I do not want to remember it again."
A spokesman for the U.S. State Department has no details about exemption Taghavi
"Sometimes I feel calm, sometimes I feel angry," said Reza Taghavi told ABC after his release.
Taghavi, 71, was accused in May 2008 provided money for 200 dollars the United States to a group called Tondar, or Lightning. The businessman says he did so without any intention nothing and Iranian authorities finally agreed.
He languished in a cell which has 16 beds along with the inmates in the same prison with the two climbers from the U.S. that is Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer.
On Monday, Fattal and Bauer will be in jail for 444 days, equal to the time the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran from 1979 to 1981.
Iran's intelligence minister said it had no plans to release the two climbers, state media said Friday.
Taghavi, a native of Los Angeles, will return to the U.S. next week.
"I will begin to forget what happened," he told ABC. "I do not want to remember it again."
A spokesman for the U.S. State Department has no details about exemption Taghavi
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