(Updates with Yemeni source saying diplomat exchanged for militants) DUBAI, March 5 (Reuters) - An Iranian diplomat held hostage in Yemen since 2013 returned home to Tehran on Thursday amid conflicting accounts of how he was freed from his unidentified abductors. IRNA, Iran's state news agency, quoted deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying that an Iranian intelligence operation in Yemen rescued **or Ahmad Nikbakht, an administrative official at Tehran's embassy in Sanaa. Iran's state-run Press TV showed Nikbakht looking healthy and wearing a suit when he met his family and Abdollahian on arrival at Tehran airport. Nikbakht was the second high-profile hostage freed in Yemen this week.
03-08-2015, 02:11 AM
Kidnapped Iranian diplomat held in Yemen since 2013 freed
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