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Iran has released on bail a French teaching assistant who is charged with spying, a statement from President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said. Iran has freed on bail a 24-year-old French university lecturer who was charged with spying after last month's presidential election.
The statement said Clotilde Reiss, 24, was in good health and would stay at the French embassy in Tehran pending a verdict in her trial. A statement from the French presidency said Clotilde Reiss was in good health and would stay at the French embassy in Tehran awaiting a verdict in her trial.
Ms Reiss was charged with aiding an anti-regime plot after Iran's disputed presidential election in June. President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said it had asked that all charges against her and an embassy employee be dropped.
She had been held in an Iranian prison since early July. Ms Reiss went before an Iranian tribunal in a mass trial on 8 August.
She was arrested in Tehran on 1 July, after taking part in post-election street protests.
Hundreds of people were detained after violent protests that followed June's disputed election.
France has demanded that her case, and that of the French-Iranian embassy worker, who was released on bail earlier, be thrown out.
"The French authorities now demand that the judicial procedures levelled against Clotilde Reiss and Mrs Nazak Afshar - which nothing can justify - be ended as soon as possible," the French presidency said.
Mr Sarkozy thanked the European Union and allies, specifically Syria, for their help in obtaining Ms Reiss's release from jail.