Russian journalist Yulia Yuzik, who has been detained in Iran, will be released soon, Russia's RIA news agency quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi as saying on Friday.
The move followed the summoning of the Iranian ambassador on Friday by the Russian Foreign Ministry over the detention of Yulia Yuzik in Tehran.
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Moscow has close economic and political ties with Tehran, and it is unusual for the latter to target Russian citizens.
"Due to the detention in Tehran of Russian citizen Yulia Yuzik, Iran's ambassador has been invited to the foreign ministry to facilitate a quick clarification of the circumstances of the incident and the protection of the rights of the Russian citizen," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page.
In a brief phone conversation with her mother late on Thursday, Yuzik said security forces had broken into her hotel room and detained her on suspicion of having ties to Israeli intelligence services, her ex-husband Boris Voitsekhovsky told Reuters.
"The representative of Russia's consulate is now at the Iranian Foreign Ministry trying to resolve this issue," he said, adding that Yuzik had been in Iran at least once before when she spent a few months working for a local media outlet.
This time "she just went there as a private person. She just went there, stayed at the hotel, chatted with local journalists," he said.
Voitsekhovsky said Yuzik did not hold joint Israeli citizenship or a visa for that country and last visited Israel about 15 or 17 years ago to report on daily life in the Israel Defense Forces for Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
