Two Kuwaitis detained by Iranian authorities last month for spying were released on Saturday, Kuwaiti foreign minister announced late Saturday, Fars reported.
An airplane dispatched late yesterday to Iran on the orders of the Kuwaiti Emir took back the two Kuwaiti citizens held here on charges of spying.
Adel Al-Yahya and Raed Al-Majed were earlier released from detention, Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said in a statement.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled thanked the Iranian authorities for releasing the two from the city of Ahvaz, the capital of the Southwestern Khuzestan province.
He added that Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had been closely following the case.
Al-Yahya and Al-Majed were accompanied by Kuwait's ambassador to Tehran Majdi Al-Thafiri. The sources said Al-Thafiri was allowed by Iran's foreign ministry to visit the two detainees in their Abadan prison and the country later released the two.
The two were arrested in Abadan last month and were accused of spying.