Iranian-American Scholar Is Released on Bail

Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, was released on bail Tuesday from an Iranian prison, where she had been detained since May, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education. There is no word as to whether she will be able to leave the country or if she will face espionage charges in a trial.

Ms. Esfandiari is one of three Iranian-American scholars arrested in Iran this year, a sign of the diplomatic tensions that exist between the United States and Iran, the newspaper reports.

Also detained was scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, who works as a consultant for the nonprofit Open Society Institute, a social-justice grant maker.

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