Mohammad Abedini's release comes days after Iran freed Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from a Tehran jail following intense diplomatic efforts by Rome. Iran announced on Sunday that a national ...

Cecilia Sala found herself in the middle of Iran’s hostage diplomacy. Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, in Rome this month after being released from a prison in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cecilia Sala, left, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, is ...

An Italian journalist arrested in Iran last month was released Wednesday after weeks of diplomatic wrangling between Rome and Tehran. Cecilia Sala, 29, landed at a Rome airport on Wednesday.

ROME - Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who had been detained in Italy on a U.S. warrant, on Sunday left jail and returned to Iran after Rome's justice minister filed to revoke his arrest.

By Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was arrested last month in Iran while on a reporting trip, was released on Wednesday and is now back in Italy ...

on Sunday left jail and returned to Iran after Rome’s justice minister filed to revoke his arrest. Abedini was arrested in Milan last month for allegedly supplying drone parts that Washington ...

Iran announced on Sunday that a national held in Italy had return home, shortly after Rome said it was seeking to revoke his arrest and extradition warrant. Mohammad Abedini, 38, was arrested in ...

Iranian officials dismissed these allegations and stressed that Sala’s arrest was in no way a move to pressure Rome into releasing Abedini. Abedini – arrested on 16 December at Milan’s ...

The Italian outlet Chora Media, where Sala also works, said that she had left Rome on December 12 “with ... hoping for a swift release. Iranian state news agency IRNA, citing the Iranian ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala reacts as she arrives at her home, after she was freed from detention in Iran, in Rome, Italy, January 8, 2025 [Remo Casilli/Reuters] Meloni had personally made a ...

ROME—Iran released Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, whose arrest in Tehran last month had sparked fears of a lengthy hostage crisis—a win for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni that ...