German-French cyclist freed from Iranian prison, Paris says

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2025-10-08

Paris (dpa) - A 19-year-old dual German-French national held in Iran for nearly four months has been released and returned to France, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Wednesday. Barrot said staff from the French embassy in Tehran had accompanied Lennart Monterlos home. An Iranian court had acquitted him of espionage charges only days earlier. The man, who had been on a cycling trip, was arrested in June in Iran's southern Hormozga......

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