In January 2014, Sky News Arabia channel erroneously reported that police had found the decapitated body of the kidnapped Iranian diplomat Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht in the province of Maareb in central Yemen. However, Nikbakht was later discovered to be alive.
The Press TV channel published a video that shows Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht disembarking from a plane in Teheran.
PRESSTV LIVE: Iranian diplomat abducted in Yemen released, returns home http://t.co/iDvBrm2iZa pic.twitter.com/GOpD9obHMB
— Press TV (@PressTV) March 5, 2015
The Iranian TV channel said that law enforcement agencies from Yemen and Iran, as well as local politicians, had participated in the diplomat's liberation. The security services believe that the diplomat was kidnapped by al-Qaeda terrorist group, according to the news outlet.
Local press reported that the Iranian diplomat was kidnapped in July 2013, while on his way to work in the diplomatic quarter of Sanaa, by an unidentified gunman who blocked his route and kidnapped the diplomat.