The Iranian lawyer of U.S. two hikers imprisoned in the Islamic Republic for two years on charges of illegally entering the country says CBS News the paperwork to see them on bail has been signed, and is out of jail on Wednesday.
Shafiei Masoud said the guarantee document was signed on Wednesday by a third judge, whose vacation had delayed the process of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal.
Shafiei said the last remaining obstacle - a "minor" technical barrier to the transfer of $ 1 million in bail money in the correct account in Tehran - was resolved, and he was on his way to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran where Fattal and Bauer have been held for pick-up.
A report on Iran's state television network quoted officials as saying that "the two American men are free to return to America."
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The process of reality out of prison could take minutes or hours, and Seyed Bathaei CBS News says it is still possible Iran's justice ministry and prison officers to try to complicate the release of any number of delays in the proceedings - but said all the hoops necessary signals had been jumped through, and the release of the men was imminent.
Bathaei says, given past experience, the men probably Evin head directly to the Swiss embassy in Tehran - who has cared for Washington's interests in Iran since diplomatic relations officer with the U.S. broke.
A Swiss Embassy convoy was arriving at Evin prison after Wednesday morning but had to wait outside the room until he got the documents signed Shafiei bail.
The couple could be on a plane at the international airport in Tehran, went to a far destination clearly on the outside, later on Wednesday.
Fattal and Bauer were arrested along with her friend Sarah Shourd when he allegedly crossed the border between a poorly marked area of natural beauty Iraq and Iran.
Shourd was launched in September 2010 on $ 500,000 bail and returned to the United States. Shourd case officially remains open in Iran, but has a vigorous campaign for the release of her friends since returning to the U.S.
The three were initially accused of being spies for U.S. But his arrest is largely used as currency by the Iranian regime is in permanent dispute with the U.S. government on the nuclear aspirations of the Republic.
"The legal process in respect of the hikers was not normal," prominent Iranian lawyer Mustafaei Muhammad, who was not involved in the case of men, told CBS News last week. "They have been taken hostage. They were used by the Supreme Leader, because of the hostility between Iran and the U.S."
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York this week for a meeting of the General Assembly, was widely seen as intended to ensure "public tours to match your time on U.S. soil.
But Ahmadinejad's own tense relations with the Muslim hard-line clerics in reality all the power in Iran has led to false starts serveral the liberation of the excursionists.
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