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US official: Swiss plane carrying four freed Americans leaves Tehran

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WASHINGTON - A Swiss plane carrying four American prisoners and some family members left Tehran on Sunday as part of a prisoner swap deal, a US official told Reuters.

 

"Yes, the plane has left," the official told Reuters.

 

The four are Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, Saeed Abedini, a pastor from Idaho, Amir Hekmati, a former Marine from Flint, Michigan, and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari.

 

A fifth prisoner, the American student Matthew Trevithick, was released separately from the other four on Saturday, a US official said.

 

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