Iran frees hiker 'spies' | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

TEHERAN : Two US hikers jailed for spying and illegal entry were on their way home to the United States on Wednesday after Iran released them on bail, months after handing them hefty jail terms.

Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, both 29, were driven straight to Teheran's Mehrabad airport after their release from the capital's notorious Evin prison and boarded a flight to the Gulf sultanate of Oman, which paid their bail.The release of the pair, who had been in custody for more than two years in a case that poisoned already difficult relations between Teheran and Washington, came as President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was in New York for the UN General Assembly."Moments ago they left Iran via Mehrabad airport and it seems that the two American nationals have left for Oman and from there to America," Iran's official IRNA news agency reported."The Swiss ambassador to Teheran and a...