Trump Announces Iran Frees American Citizen in a 'Goodwill Gesture'
President Trump said Iran released Iranian American Dena Karari, detained since December 2024 on espionage charges tied to a U.S.-based nonprofit; her attorney says she was effectively held by a coercive exit ban and interrogated dozens of times, and she is now outside Iran, with Trump calling the move a 'gesture of goodwill' amid ongoing U.S.–Iran tensions.