"I have the most beautiful photograph of my life, my heart full of gratitude, in my head those who looking up can't yet see the sky . I never thought, in these 21 days, that I would be home today. Thank you."
Cecilia Sala wrote this in her first post on X after her release from Evin prison in Tehran. The photo immortalizes her when, running down the steps of the plane at Ciampino, she hugs her partner and journalist Daniele Raineri.
The most anticipated announcement, especially by the parents, came unexpectedly yesterday in the late morning from Palazzo Chigi: the reporter from Foglio and Chora Media was free and already flying from Teheran to Rome, together with the head of AISE Giovanni Caravelli, who had gone to pick her up personally in Iran.
The end of a nightmare, 21 days in detention in the infamous Evin political prison, without even a bed to sleep on, after an arrest triggered by a generic accusation of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic. The tension of these dramatic three weeks melted in the smile of the 29-year-old welcomed by Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani, representing a government that achieved this success after a delicate negotiation at diplomatic and intelligence level.
A negotiation with Tehran, and on the Rome-Washington line, complicated from the beginning by a cumbersome pawn: the Iranian drone man arrested in Malpensa, the Iranian engineer Mohammed Abedini Najafabadi, on whom there is an extradition request from the United States, and who instead Tehran wants released.
(Online Union)