Saudi Arabia has urged Iran to allow a daughter of Osama Bin Laden to leave the country after the Iranians acknowledged she was in Tehran. The Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal said his government was in talks with Iran over freeing the fugitive al-Qaeda leader's daughter. Iman Bin Laden, 17, is said to have recently escaped from a compound where she and others were under house arrest. She took refuge in the Saudi embassy in Tehran.Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported last month that Iman and five siblings have been held under house arrest by Iran since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. The newspaper says the embassy has issued her with a travel permit to allow her to return to Saudi Arabia. It also quoted Zaina Bin Laden, the wife of Bin Laden's fourth son Omar, as saying that Bin Laden children and Bin Laden's wife Khayriyah were living in a residential compound on the outskirts of Tehran.
News On AIR | January 3, 2010 10:44 AM
Saudi Arabia urges Iran to free Bin Laden daughter