TEHRAN, Iran — A prominent Iranian-American scholar being held on spy charges here is being treated well and may be released in coming weeks, a senior Iranian official told FOX News.
Mohammad Javad Larijani, a influential politician, cleric and the Iranian judiciary’s chief adviser on international affairs and human rights, called the charges against Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington serious, but said he remained optimistic that her situation would be “resolved” soon and she will be able to go home.
“I’ve been given assurances of her health and well treatment and the opening in the near future of access to her,” Larijani said in an interview at his office over the weekend. “I think it will be resolved in one or two weeks at most and she will be released.”
