By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
One of the Americans recently released from Iranian custody as part of a prisoner swap is a former FBI consultant and expatriate who was teaching English when he was imprisoned last May, The New York Times reports.
Not much was known about Nosratollah Khosravi until he was recently featured by Iranwire, a news service run by expatriate Iranian journalists.
Khosravi left Iran in the 1980s for the United States after the country’s revolution in 1979. He later became a freelance consultant to the FBI before returning to Iran in 2013 to visit his mother.
Khosravi ended up staying to teach English before he was detained by Iranian officials.
As part of a prisoner swap, Khosravi and three other Iranian-Americans were released by Iran in exchange for the United Stated releasing seven people.
