Iran and Sweden announced on Saturday a prisoner exchange that saw a former Iranian official jailed in Sweden freed as Stockholm said Tehran had released a European Union diplomat and a second Swede. 'Hamid Noury, who has been in illegal detention in Sweden since 2019, is free and will return to the country in a few hours,' Kazem Gharibabadi, head of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, said in a post on social media platform X. Shortly afterwards, Sweden's prime minister said Johan Floderus, an EU diplomat, and another Swedish national who were held in Iran had been released and
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