Two Iranian Engineers Back Home after Six Months of Captivity by U.S-backed and financed terrorists in Syria

Two Iranian engineers who had been kidnapped by terrorist rebel groups in Syria in December are now in Iran after they were freed following the efforts made by the Iranian officials to secure their freedom.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday announcing that the two Iranian engineers, Sajjad Amirian and Kiomars Qobadi, were freed.

On May 16, another two Iranian engineers who had been abducted by armed rebels in Syria were handed over to the embassy of the Islamic Republic in Ankara. They flew to Iran and reunited with their families on May 17.

On December 2011, 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 during a welcome ceremony on Friday, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi said four of seven Iranian engineers, who were working in Syria, have been freed so far.

He added that efforts are underway to free the other engineers who are still in captivity in Syria.