Will Freed U.S. Hiker Return to Iran for Trial?

Tehran's prosecutor said Tuesday Iran will seize the $500,000 bail posted by an American woman freed from prison last month if she does not return for the start of her trial on Nov. 6.

Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi was quoted by the semi-official ISNA news agency as saying that Sarah Shourd can return to Iran and defend herself at the court.

Shourd was freed after 13 months in a Tehran prison and returned to the United States. Her fiance, Shane Bauer, and their friend Josh Fattal remain in prison and all three face trial on spying charges.

"Shourd has said she will return. According to the rules, we can invite them. She can attend the court and defend herself. But the bail will be confiscated if she doesn't return," ISNA quoted Dowlatabadi as saying.

The three Americans were reportedly hiking in July 2009 in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region, near the border, when Iranian forces took them into custody and accused them of intentionally crossing.

Iran initially accused them of illegal border crossing then later raised spying allegations. The U.S. government says the three are innocent.

According to a U.S. military report that is among a huge cache of documents posted Friday by the WikiLeaks website, the three were on the Iraqi side of the border at the time.

Last month, Shourd said she could not feel the joy of freedom as long as her two fellow Americans remain imprisoned.

"I thought this would be the end, and at this point I don't know when the end is going to come," Shourd said on CBS' "The Early Show." "So now I'm in this position the families have been in all along, of anxiety and uncertainty and really no guarantees.

"Of course, we have hope, but we don't know when this is going to end."

Shourd was kept in solitary confinement at the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, in a cell she said was 5 feet by 10. For the first few months, she was granted no time outside, before being allowed to spend a half-hour or hours in a courtyard with her friends.

"It slowly increased with begging and pleading and, you know, a lot of tears," Shourd told Rodriguez. "But I would, you know, anticipate and center my whole day around that time, it was my only human contact. So when the hour drew near and I never exactly when I would be taken out but I would start pacing around the room and wringing my hands and often just crying full of anxiety.

"And when I saw them, Shane and Josh, Just incredibly compassionate, supportive young men, we would sit around in a circle and hold hands. Every time I felt I was slipping away they would bring me back.

"Shane and Josh were my lifeline," Shourd said.