Alessia Piperno told her family she was thrilled and moved by her release from an Iranian jail and return to Italy after six and a half weeks in custody in the Asian country Thursday.
"I'm fine, I'm excited and moved", Piperno said, according to well-informed sources, talking on the phone with her parents on the plane that is bringing her back from Iran to Italy.
The young woman was handed over to officials from the Italian embassy at Tehran airport.
Once on the plane, the first thing she did was call her parents in Italy.
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