Two US citizens sentenced in Iran to eight years in jail for spying arrived in New York on Sunday accompanied by family four days after being released by Iranian authorities. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal made the last leg of their journey home from Oman, where they flew after officials there helped secure their release by posting $1 million bail.
A fellow passenger confirmed to Reuters TV the two were on board a plane that arrived from London. New York authorities said they would leave the airport from an exit closed to media.
In the Philadelphia-area home of Fattal's family, neighbours hung a big blue "Welcome Home" banner and posted other homecoming messages in potted flowers. It wasn't clear if or when Fattal might arrive there.
Bauer and Fattal were arrested in July 2009 near Iran's border with Iraq along with a third American, Sarah Shourd, who was freed last year on medical grounds.
The trio, in their late 20s and early 30s, said they were hiking and denied being spies.
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