Iran releases jailed Texas graduate student
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Iran's state newspaper is saying authorities have released a jailed Iranian Texas graduate student after nearly five years.
The Tuesday report by government-owned IRAN daily quoted Saeed Khalili, the lawyer for Omid Kokabee, as saying the country's judiciary will allow Kokabee to enjoy "conditional freedom" for the rest of his 10-year sentence.
Khalili said Kokabee, who was released from jail in April to undergo medical treatment on his kidneys, "will not return to prison, anymore."
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Kokabee, who studied optics in the physics department at the University of Texas, was arrested in February 2011 and convicted of having "relations with a hostile country" and receiving "illegitimate funds."
Though Iran and the United States have no diplomatic relations, many Iranian students apply to study in the U.S. every year.