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Kidnapped Iranian Diplomat Liberated in Yemen After Two Years in Captivity

© AFP 2023 / ISNA / AMIR POURMAND Iranian released diplomat Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht, who was kidnapped in Yemen and held hostage for nearly two years, hugs his wife upon his arrival in Tehran's Mehrabad airport on March 5, 2015
Iranian released diplomat Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht, who was kidnapped in Yemen and held hostage for nearly two years, hugs his wife upon his arrival in Tehran's Mehrabad airport on March 5, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Kidnapped Iranian diplomat Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht was released in Yemen and returned home.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik)– An Iranian diplomat, abducted in July 2013 in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, has been released and has returned home, Press TV reported Thursday.

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.

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.

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