{"id":1224,"date":"2026-07-16T04:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professionalmoversusa.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:40:02","slug":"u-s-citizen-departs-iran-after-being-barred-from-leaving-for-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalmoversusa.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"U.S. citizen departs Iran after being barred from leaving for over a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>A U.S.-Iran dual citizen who was trapped in Iran on allegations of espionage and collaborating with a hostile state has departed the country, CBS News learned Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/professionalmoversusa.com\/?p=1222\">\u201cHe was screaming for someone to help him\u201d: Sons say they learned father was killed by ICE through video, news reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The woman, Dena Karari, had been unable to leave Iran since December 2024 due to &#8220;bogus charges,&#8221; her attorney, Jared Genser, wrote on social media. Genser announced late Wednesday that Karari is now free, writing that she is &#8220;safe and traveling back to the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Karari was under an exit ban, which means that Iranian authorities refused to let her leave, but did not have her imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p>She was never formally charged by Iran. Although her coercive exit ban expired in April, Iran did not allow her to exit at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She suffered a heart attack on July 8, two sources told CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two sources said Karari&#8217;s name was on a list of Americans that the U.S. State Department had given to U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff \u2014 who is helping to lead U.S.-Iran diplomacy \u2014 to press for her release.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier Wednesday that Iran had released a U.S. citizen, but he did not identify the person.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/professionalmoversusa.com\/?p=1220\">Trump to allege Chinese meddling in U.S. elections in primetime speech, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition,&#8221; Mr. Trump said. &#8220;The United States of America appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department declined to comment on the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several Americans\u00a0are imprisoned\u00a0in Iran, two of whom have been legally designated as wrongfully detained: Kamran Hekmati and Reza Valizadeh. The State Department can label U.S. nationals as &#8220;wrongfully detained&#8221; based on multiple criteria, including credible evidence of their innocence or reports that they are being held to extract concessions from the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, CBS News obtained a recording of Valizadeh, an Iranian American journalist, pleading for his release from inside Tehran&#8217;s notorious Evin Prison. <\/p>\n<p>The release of detained Americans was not part of the memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran last month, which extended the two countries&#8217; ceasefire for 60 days. Fighting between the two sides has\u00a0<span>resumed<\/span>\u00a0over the last week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/professionalmoversusa.com\/?p=1218\">Pentagon proposes new secrecy power to withhold unclassified records from public-access laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><br \/>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S.-Iranian woman who was trapped in Iran on allegations of espionage and collaborating with a hostile state that her attorney called &#8220;bogus&#8221; has departed the country, CBS News learned Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,92],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-iran","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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