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Dual Iranian-American Citizen Returned to U.S. Soil, After Being Detained by Iran's Regime for Two Years 71%
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell63%
7/19/2026, 6:50:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 28% saturation with 132 hits. Analysis detected 1,226 faulty-reasoning hits from 471 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64.1% and a BS Rank of 71% (5,592 of 18,669 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 70.10% of the article peer group.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had secured the release of an Iranian woman and American citizen.
While Trump did not mention the woman's name in the post, since 2024, she had been detained by the Iranian regime on charges of espionage.
As RedState reported:
"Iran has allowed an American Citizen, who was wrongfully detained in December of 2024 under the “presidency” of Sleepy Joe Biden, to leave the Country.
She is now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition."
Of course, according to the Jerusalem Post, Iran's leadership denied that any such American citizen detained by them had been released, essentially alleging that Trump was lying.
Iran's judiciary said that no American prisoner had been released or exchanged from its prisons, Iranian state media reported on Thursday, after US President Donald Trump said a US citizen detained during the Biden administration in 2024 had been freed.
The judiciary said checks showed no convicted American prisoner, person accused of spying for the United States matching Trump's description, or any other American detainee had been released from Iranian prisons or exchanged.
But on Sunday, the woman in question, Dena Karari, landed on U.S. soil.
An American woman wrongfully detained in Iran for a year and a half on spying charges has now landed back in the US, her attorney announced.
Dena Karari, who was locked up by the Iranian regime for 566 days and charged with espionage, wore an American flag around her shoulders as she arrived in San Francisco, according to a photo shared by her human rights lawyer on Saturday.
Karari's human rights attorney, Jared Genser, announced her return and profusely thanked President Trump for his efforts in ensuring Karari was released and made it back safely to the U.S.
I am delighted and excited to report that my client U.S. citizen #DenaKarari, who had been trapped in #Iran since December 2024 on bogus charges is now free.
This would not have happened but for the extraordinary and relentless efforts of President @realDonaldTrump.
Dena is now safe and traveling back to the United States.
Karari has dual Iranian-American citizenship and runs a technology company as well as a children's charity in Iran.
The Iranian regime imprisoned her and confiscated both her passports, preventing her from leaving the country.
The release of Karari as a gesture of goodwill occurred before the Saturday collapse of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Iran and the United States.
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