Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese national and US resident arrested in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in jail on espionage charges, flashes the victory gesture at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut on June 11, 2019. Zakka was arrested in September 2015 during a visit to Iran, where he was convicted the following July. He was freed by Iran on June 11, 2019. / AFP / ANWAR AMRO
Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese national and US resident arrested in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in jail on espionage charges, flashes the victory gesture at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut on June 11, 2019. Zakka was arrested in September 2015 during a visit to Iran, where he was convicted the following July. He was freed by Iran on June 11, 2019. / AFP / ANWAR AMRO
Lebanese President Michel Aoun (R) shakes hands with Nizar Zakka (C), a Lebanese national and US resident arrested in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in jail on espionage charges, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut on June 11, 2019. Zakka was arrested in September 2015 during a visit to Iran, where he was convicted the following July. He was freed by Iran on June 11, 2019. / AFP / ANWAR AMRO
Lebanese President Michel Aoun (R) shakes hands with Nizar Zakka (C), a Lebanese national and US resident arrested in 2015 and sentenced to 10 years in jail on espionage charges, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut on June 11, 2019. Zakka was arrested in September 2015 during a visit to Iran, where he was convicted the following July. He was freed by Iran on June 11, 2019. / AFP / ANWAR AMRO
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أكدت السلطات اللبنانية اليوم (الثلاثاء) إطلاق سراح اللبناني نزار زكا الذي كان معتقلاً في إيران بتهمة التجسس لصالح الولايات المتحدة، بعد ساعات من إعلان القضاء الإيراني موافقته على الإفراج عنه.

واعتُقل زكا (51 عاماً) المقيم في الولايات المتحدة، في سبتمبر عام 2015 خلال زيارة لإيران. وتحدث النظام الإيراني حينذاك عن «علاقات عميقة» تربطه «بالأوساط العسكرية والاستخباراتية الأمريكية». وحكم عليه في يوليو 2016 بالسجن 10 سنوات بتهمة «التجسس» لصالح واشنطن.