TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has received no message from France via Syria on the release of Clotilde Reiss, a French national who was detained during post-election unrests in Iran, an official said on Tuesday.

“This report that has been released by certain media outlets is not true,” an informed official at the Iranian foreign ministry told FNA.

Reiss, a 24-year-old lecturer, was release on 3 billion Rials (almost USD330,000) bail, and is reportedly staying at the French embassy in Tehran at present.

Yet, Tehran’s Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi yesterday announced that Clotilde Reiss cannot leave the country.

Mortazavi also said that investigations into her case have completed.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the French presidency announced that Clotilde Reiss was released from the Evin prison in Tehran on Sunday.

Noting that Reiss is in good health and spirit, the statement added that she would stay in the French embassy in Tehran pending the verdict in her case.

An indictment raised by deputy Prosecutor-General of Tehran’s public and revolutionary courts charged Reiss with acting against Iran’s national security by participating in street riots, collecting news and information and pictures from the riots and sending them to the scientific attaché of the French embassy in Tehran.

Reiss has been held in a Tehran prison where other detainees of Iran’s post-election unrests have been kept. She was arrested at a Tehran airport on July 1 on charges of espionage as she tried to leave Iran after spending five months in the central city of Isfahan.

During her court hearing on July 8, she admitted to her crimes and asked the court and the Iranian people for clemency.

“I apologize to the Iranian people and court and I hope the people and the court forgive me,” she said.

The French presidency also urged Iran in its statement to put an end to the judicial prosecution of the French citizen as well as a local Embassy staff, Nazak Afshar, who was conditionally released last Tuesday.

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