President Donald Trump announced that Iran has released an American woman who had been wrongfully detained in the country since December 2024. The woman, identified as Dena Karari by her attorney, was detained and charged but released on bail with an exit ban that blocked her from leaving Iran.
Background
Karari’s lawyer, Jared Genser, stated that she had been subjected to a coercive exit ban and had been targeted because she operated a non-profit called the Children of Mehr Foundation, which helped impoverished children in Iran with private donor support and authorization of an OFAC license.
Genser thanked Trump and said Karari is now safe and traveling back to the United States. He also urged Iran to drop all the remaining charges against those who worked locally in support of the Children of Mehr Foundation and to release all wrongly imprisoned Americans and Iranian political prisoners.
Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.
