Iran and Sweden exchanged prisoners on Saturday in a major breakthrough, according to the Swedish prime minister.
Iran released the European Union diplomat and Swedish national Johan Floderus, who had been arrested in April 2022 in Tehran, as well as the dual national Saeed Azizi, the Swedish prime minister said.
“It is with pleasure that I can announce that Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi are now on a plane home to Sweden, and will soon be reunited with their families,” the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, said on social media.
In exchange, Sweden released Hamid Noury, a high-ranking Iranian official who had been sentenced to life in a Swedish court for war crimes committed in 1988 in Iran.
The swap was coordinated with the help of Oman, according to a statement published by the Omani state news agency.
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After being released from prison in Sweden’s, Iran's Hamid Nouri upon arrival in Tehran said, “I have a message for the terrorist MEK. I’m now in Tehran with my family on Eid al-Adha. Where are you wretches now? You said that even God cannot release Hamid Nouri. You saw he could.
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The corrupt leftist govt of Sweden traded and released Hamid Nouri, who was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity, in exchange for a Swedish hostage in Iran. Shame on the supporters of evil and the false claimants of human rights.
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