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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - WASHINGTON —Iranian citizen who holds permanent US residency has been released from prison in Iran and has returned to the United States, the State Department confirmed on Tuesday.
Shahab Dalili, a former captain with Iran’s state shipping company who later settled in the United States with his wife and two sons, traveled to Tehran in 2016 to attend his father’s funeral. He was arrested before reaching the airport for his return flight to Virginia.
An Iranian court later sentenced him to 10 years in prison on charges including espionage and colluding with a "hostile government", referring to the United States.
“The State Department happily welcomes the safe return of Shahab Dalili from his detention in Iran,” a department spokesperson said in a statement.
“Iran should immediately release all those unjustly detained in Iran,” the official continued, adding that President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio “will continue to work for the release of all unjustly detained Americans.”
After his release from Iran's Evin prison, Dalili traveled to the Armenian capital Yerevan before returning to Washington where he is reunited with his family, according to Hostage Aid Worldwide.
“After a long journey from Evin to Yerevan to DC, we joyfully announce that Shahab Dalili is finally home safe with his family after a decade+ of wrongful detention in Iran,” the advocacy group wrote on X on Monday, adding that his relatives now hope he can “reintegrate smoothly into normal life.”
It did not specify the date of his return.
The United States authorized the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian funds frozen in South Korea and the release of five Iranians to facilitate the release of five Americans jailed by Iran in 2023. Dalili and his son went on hunger strike in 2023 after he was not included in that deal.
Iran and the United States are currently embroiled in a war that has shaken the Middle East and elevated energy prices.
Negotiations on a deal to end the conflict have gone on for weeks but neither side has accepted the other’s peace proposals.
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