Text of report by Iranian official government news

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A Southern California peace activist has been released from an Iranian prison four months after being arrested, a report said Tuesday.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has released Iranian-American peace activist Ali Shakeri after he spent four months in a Tehran prison, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. He is the fourth U.S. citizen to be released by Iran since August after being accused of trying to stir up a revolution.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has released Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American academic held in prison since May on charges of endangering Iran's security, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.