Freed Iranian engineers arrive home

On Wednesday, the two engineers were handed over to the embassy of the Islamic Republic in Ankara, from where they flew to Iran and reunited with their families Thursday morning.

Last December, five Iranian electrical engineers were kidnapped in Syria after a group of unknown gunmen attacked their convoy in the city of Homs.

They were on their way to work at the city’s Jandar power plant, which has been under construction by Iranian technicians for the past two years.

Two other Iranians, trying to determine the fate of the engineers, were also nabbed, and there has been no report on their whereabouts.

Speaking to reporters at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi thanked efforts by Turkish officials and expressed hope that other abducted Iranian engineers would also be released soon in cooperation with the Turkish government.

Majid Qanbari, one of the released engineers, said, “I am a technician. I worked on a power plant in Syria for seven months. It was nearly the end of our work that this happened.”

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