French president Macron welcomed Iran's willingness for exchange

xParis : Iran has released two French nationals imprisoned there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, in an apparent exchange for an Iranian student who was conditionally freed in October. Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, who had been detained since 2022, "are out of the Evin jail and en route to the French Embassy in Tehran", Macron posted on X. "I welcome this first step. The dialogue continues to allow for their return to France as quickly as possible."

Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said later on X that Kohler and Paris were now "safe" at the French Embassy "ahead of their final release". Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said later that the two

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