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he wound up waiting for an extended time for the second plane to reach the Iranian capital and was never told why the arriving aircraft was so important.
“I just remember the night at the airport sitting for hours and hours there, and I asked police, ‘Why are you not letting us go?’ ” Abedini said. “He said, ‘We are waiting for another plane so if that plane doesn’t come, we never let [you] go.’ ”
It was not clear if the second plane was the unmarked aircraft holding palettes of euros, Swiss francs and other currencies. The State Department would not clarify whether the hostages were released before or after the cash was delivered.