Attorney of Haleh Esfandyari, an Iranian national who is a resident of the US and was arrested by Tehran officials on charges of harming national security, said Esfandyari can now travel abroad after she was let out on bail on Tuesday.

Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham here Wednesday spoke of a mafia group in Iran which seeks to control the country’s giant oil industries to use its huge revenues for family and partisan interests.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conferred with Azerbaijan’s Prime Minister Artur Rasizade about bilateral ties and regional and world issues in Baku on Wednesday.