Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 13 /Trend/
Iran's Revolutionary Court has agreed Tuesday to release two U.S. citizens, accused of espionage and illegal border crossing, under $500,000 bail for each, Fars News Agency reported.
Their lawyer Massoud Shafee confirmed that he received the Court's decision and submitted it to the Swiss Embassy, which represents U.S. interests in Iran, and to their parents.
After the bail is posted, the U.S. citizens will be released, he added, ILNA reported.
Early Tuesday, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said two American hikers will be freed this week, according to NBC News, which was to air an interview with the Iranian leader Tuesday morning.
Joshua Fattal, along with Shane Bauer, and Sarah Shourd, were arrested in the western Iranian district of Marivan, at the Malakh-Khur border point, in 2009, while they were hiking near Iran's border with Iraq. They were charged with illegally crossing the border and espionage.
Shourd was released in September, 2010 on health grounds after posting 500,000 dollars in bail, and returned to the United States.