Mr. Ali Shakeri the Iranian -American businessman is still in prison !

Haleh Esfandiary the Iranian -American researcher last year left America for Iran to visit her 93 years old mother and her passport was confiscated when she was leaving Iran by three masked -armed with knife agents and on May 8, 2007 she was arrested and spent 105 days in Evin prison. Ms. Esfandiary was the head of the Middle Eastern studies in Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington. The Iranian television in two separate documentary which was aired on last summer tried to connect her activities with George Bush's $75M orange revolution project in Iran to overthrow the Islamic Republic. Ms. Esfandiary was also chrged with " action against national security ". Ms. Esfandiary was released on bail and the bail which was decided by the court was more than $300 , 000 . She left the deed of her moms home to the court as the bail .Ms. Esfandiary after the release , early Monday morning September three left Iran for Austria.

The 2nd Iranian - American who was arrested in the airport when visited Iran was Ms. Parnaz (Nazy) Azima, a reporter for the Radio Voice of America ( VOA) - Farsi division in czech Republic. Ms. Azima was also visiting her mom when arrested by the agents in the airport.

Last Monday night the judiciary officials returned her passport to her and now she wants to leave Iran. But she has to return for the trial day. She is chrged with " propaganda against the system" . She was released on bail and the amount ordered by the judge is 510 Million Tuman ( more than $510 , 000 ). Same as Ms. Haleh ,she also handed the deed of her mom's home to the court as the amount for the bail.

The third Iranian - American researcher working for " Open Society " was the 45 years old Mr. Yahya Kian Tajbakhsh who was arrested in Iran around four months ago. He is charged with "propaganda and espionage for foreign countries". Mr. Tajbakhsh is a social researcher. It was on May 29 this year when Mr. Alireza Jamshidi the spoksperson from judiciary power in Tehran announced that Mr. Tajbakhsh is infact arrested. Tehran's security crime prosecutor Mr. Hadad announced that Mr. Tajbakhsh's file is on the review and his temporary arrest will end with a bail.

The 4th person who also ended being arrested visiting Iran is an Iranian - French by the name of Ms. Mehrnoush Seluki. She has been detained by the security-judiciary agents in Iran.