KUN0122 4 INT 0151 IRAN /KUNA-PJG2 SEC-IRAN-GUANTANAMO Guantanamo prisoner returns home TEHRAN, Sept 14 (KUNA) -- Iran declared on Tuesday that an Iranian national, named Bakhtiar Bamri, who had been detained at Guantanamo prison, has returned home. The foreign ministry said in a statement that Bamri, who was arrested by the American forces in Afghanistan in 2002, was released and returned to Iran today, adding that he spent six months at a prison in Bagram prison in Afghanistan before caming back aboard a plane of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Some 600 detainees, snatched during the allied war on Afghanistan, are held in the Guantanamo prison. The US had informed Tehran about the holding of a national in the prison in an American military base in southeastern Cuba. The released prisoner, reportedly aged 25, had been accused of fighting alongside Afghanistan's Taliban militia. (end) mw.rk KUNA 142323 Sep 04NNNN