Samira Moradpour, an Iranian agent who was sentenced to five years by an Erbil court for attempts to kidnap Kurdish journalist and activist Ali Javanmardi, has been released from jail after serving just two years.
Moradpour was delivered to Iranian Consulate in Erbil on Tuesday. She was later transferred to Slemani and from there to Iran.
Moradpour, who was also editor in chief of a local magazine in Sanandaj, was arrested in October 2019 while she and her teammates were planning to kill or kidnap Ali Javanmardi . She was sentenced to five years in jail in March 2021.
Avatoday received information that Iranian regime has put significant pressure on the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to extricate Moradpour to Iran.
A day after Moradpour was arrested, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) kidnaped Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian opposition activist based in France.
Zam was executed in December 2020.
