Iran 'to release two US men jailed as spies'

[pampango]

Source: Aljazeera

The US network NBC is reporting that two US citizens sentenced in Iran last month to eight years in prison on spying charges will be freed in two days.

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested in July 2009 near Iran's border with Iraq, where they say they were hiking in the mountains. A third American, Sarah Shourd, was freed in September 2010 and returned home.

NBC, who interviewed the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, said in a Twitter message that the Ahmadinejad said Bauer and Fattal would be released in two days.

The interview was due to air later on Tuesday on NBC's Today show.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2011/09/201191393558221310.html

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. That is great news!

[freeplessinseattle]

2. Wow, that is fantastic news!! Thank you n/t

[maxsolomon]

3. All it took was a million dollar bribe.

500K "bail", just like for the woman who was arrested with them. Fucking idiots, hiking on the Iran/Iraq border.

Now, State Dept., please bribe the Italians and get Amanda Knox the F out of jail.

[SoapBox]

4. wow...great news.

I hope it all happens...and smoothly.

[SoapBox]

5. wow...great news.

I hope it all happens...and smoothly.