Iranian journalist Yeganeh Salehi , detained in Iran since July , has been freed , according to Iran 's state-run IRNA news agency and The Washington Post . Salehi was held with her husband , Washington Post Tehran Bureau Chief Jason Rezaian , and he remains behind bars , The Post reported Sunday after speaking with a family member . Salehi was released on bail last week , The Post said . It 's unclear why Salehi and Rezaian were arrested . Gholam-Hossein Esmaili , the director general of the Tehran Province Justice Department , has been quoted by IRNA as saying that a `` Washington Post journalist has been detained for some questions and after technical investigations , the judiciary will provide details on the issue . '' Four journalists detained in Iran , three of them Americans . He has not specified on what grounds the correspondent , whom he did not name , was being held . Iranian security forces are vigilant about all kinds of enemy activities , Esmaili added , according to IRNA . This summer , before the couple was arrested , CNN 's Anthony Bourdain met them while filming an upcoming episode of his `` Parts Unknown '' show . `` They were so positive about their country . I think there was just not a hint of anything that could cause anyone in any government to find fault , '' Bourdain said on `` Anderson Cooper 360 . '' `` So it 's just beyond me what they could possibly have done to bring this on themselves . As far as I 'm concerned , they were fantastic ambassadors for a little-understood country . '' Iran releases main seized with reporter . Human rights activists and other journalists have demanded the release of the couple . Iran has ranked among the world 's top three worst jailers of media workers every year since 2009 , according to independent nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists .
Yeganeh Salehi was let go ; her husband , of The Washington Post , is still held , paper says . Jason Rezaian is The Post 's Tehran bureau chief , the newspaper reports . The couple was arrested in July , but it 's unclear why .