WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and started making his way home as part of a prisoner deal involving an American-Iranian doctor prosecuted in the United States, U.S.
officials said Thursday. The U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a doctor to meet freed detainee Michael White of Imperial Beach, California.
His mother said “the nightmare is over” now that her son is out of Iranian hands. White’s release was part of an agreement involving a Florida-based doctor prosecuted by the Justice Department, and followed months of quiet negotiations.