"The case was very difficult, complicated, important, sensitive, anxious and worrisome, and it took a lot of effort, and with the prayers of my family, dear people, friends, and colleagues, I am sure that the prayers were effective and God assisted in my case," Nouri said talking to reporters at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran.
"A message for the terrorists, Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), and especially the child-killing Israel, who were very pleased with my case. I am Hamid Nouri and I am in Tehran just before Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Ghadir and the day of Arafah," said the released Iranian national.
Kazem Gharibabadi, who serves as head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, announced Nouri’s release in a post on his X account on Saturday.
He also attributed this success to the efforts of his colleagues in the Judiciary, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, particularly the late foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Nouri was arrested upon arrival at Stockholm Airport in November 2019 and was immediately imprisoned. He has been illegally jailed for three and a half years in solitary confinement in Sweden.
He was put on trial on unfounded allegations staged against him by elements representing the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group that has openly boasted about carrying out terrorist operations against Iranian officials and civilians perceived to be supporters of the government.
A Swedish court sentenced Nouri to life imprisonment in 2022. The court, which was described by Iran as illegitimate in the first place, convicted Nouri of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” entirely based on claims made by MKO terrorists living in exile across Europe.
Sweden’s Appeal Court then upheld the verdict in December 2023.
Nouri himself has vehemently denied the charges brought against him in the case while calling them fabricated.
MNA