Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who had been detained at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison since her arrest on Dec. 19, was released Wednesday and has since landed a Rome's Ciampino airport, where she was greeted by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

In a statement to X earlier on Wednesday, Meloni said that Sala was en route to Italy “thanks to intense work on diplomatic and intelligence channels.”

Sala is a journalist for the Italian daily Il Foglio as well as a podcast creator for Italy’s Chora Media. She arrived in Iran on Dec. 13 and recorded several podcast........

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