Italy's Foreign Minister clarified that Elon Musk was not involved in the negotiations for the release of journalist Cecilia Sala from an Iranian prison. Sala was freed after Italian diplomatic efforts.

An Italian journalist detained in Iran whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States said she assumed she would have been held much longer and said her boyfriend's contact with Elon Musk might have been "fundamental" to her release.