{{A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran’s reformists was released from a Tehran prison on bail on Sunday after four months in detention, sources familiar with the case said.}}<\/p>\n
Bagher Asadi, who has been a senior diplomat at Iran’s U.N. mission in New York and was recently a director at the secretariat of the so-called D8 group of developing nations in Istanbul, was arrested in mid-March in the Iranian capital, the sources told Reuters in April.<\/p>\n
The same sources, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said that an Iranian media report published on Sunday about Asadi’s release was accurate. <\/p>\n
They said it remained unclear why he was arrested in the first place and what the status is of the case against him.<\/p>\n
The sources said they doubted Asadi’s release from prison represented a move by Iranian authorities to relax what analysts and Western diplomats have described as a crackdown on dissidents in Iran ahead of the June presidential election.<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old diplomat was held at Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison in solitary confinement for months and without access to a lawyer for his entire detention, the sources told media.<\/p>\n
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