DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday that saw Tehran release a European Union diplomat and another man in exchange for an Iranian convicted in ...

STOCKHOLM - A Swede freed in a prisoner swap with Iran, 33-year-old EU diplomat Johan ... former prisons official handed a life sentence in Sweden in 2022 for his role in mass killings in Iranian ...

The prisoner exchange was mediated by Oman. Sweden freed Mr Noury while Iran released Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi. Mr Floderus, 33, was arrested on spying charges in 2022 while he was in Iran ...

Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard speaks to the press while arriving for a European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the Europa building in Brussels. Photo: ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The US and Iran swapped prisoners after two years of high-stakes negotiations. The deal included the US unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian oil funds and dismissing ...

TASS/. The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN has stated that Tehran and Washington had reached an agreement on a prisoner swap in a "5 to 5" format, the state-run IRNA ...

Iran’s authorities have repeatedly ... arrived at a preliminary agreement on prisoner exchange. If there are no obstacles from the United States, the swap will take place within days," the ...

Iran has rejected the United States’ denial of an agreement on a humanitarian prisoner exchange, expressing Tehran’s preparedness to immediately proceed with the deal already agreed with Washington ...

Iran said in August it was ready to swap prisoners with the United States, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted that Iranian-American businessman "Siamak Namazi had now spent 2,500 ...