国际英语新闻：Freed U.S. female hiker leaves Iran

TEHRAN, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- One of the three detained U.S. hikers left Iran on Tuesday evening after being released on bail of 500,000 U.S. dollars few hours earlier.

Xinhua reporter was told in Tehran's Mehrabad Airport that the female hiker Sarah Shourd left Iran for Oman on Tuesday evening.

"My client's mother has already travelled to Oman and now she is there," waiting for her daughter's arrival, said Masoud Shafiei, the Iranian lawyer of the three detained U. S. nationals.

The state-run IRNA news agency said that according to Tehran prosecutor's office, the release of the American female was made upon an order issued after the receipt of a bank guarantee on the sum of the bail.

But the tribunal has extended detention of the other two Americans, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, for another two months, Shafiei told the semi-official ISNA news agency.

Detained Americans Sarah Shourd (R), Shane Bauer (L) and Joshua Fattal smile as they wait to meet their mothers at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran in this May 21, 2010 file photo. Tehran's prosecutor released one of the detained American hikers on bail of 500,000 U.S. dollars, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Tuesday.

Over the past weekend, Iran issued mixed messages over the release of Shourd.

Iran said Thursday that it would free U.S. female hiker on Saturday morning, but it abruptly halted her release, saying " judicial proceedings in the defendant's case have not been completed."

It, again, was followed by an announcement of the country's judiciary on Sunday that it was ready to release her on bail.

After her release from Iran's Evin jail at 4:40 p.m. local time (0110 GMT), Shourd joined the Swiss embassy officials in Tehran. Her psychological and physical state is good, ISNA said.

The embassy represents U.S. interests in Iran after the two countries broke direct diplomatic relations in 1980.