{"id":73643,"date":"2024-06-15T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/sweden-and-iran-exchange-prisoners-in-a-breakthrough-swap\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:06:21","slug":"sweden-and-iran-exchange-prisoners-in-a-breakthrough-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/sweden-and-iran-exchange-prisoners-in-a-breakthrough-swap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden and Iran Exchange Prisoners in a Breakthrough Swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/15\/multimedia\/15iran-eu-release-1-ghjp\/15iran-eu-release-1-ghjp-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sweden and Iran Exchange Prisoners in a Breakthrough Swap\" title=\"Sweden and Iran Exchange Prisoners in a Breakthrough Swap\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Iran and Sweden exchanged prisoners on Saturday in a major breakthrough, according to the Swedish prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt 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,\u201d the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/swedishpm\/status\/1801938573651824807?s=48&amp;t=0ahFBb8ZxdEUQ24PBgNg8A\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The swap was coordinated with the help of Oman, according to a statement published by the Omani state news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Vivian Nereim<!-- --> contributed reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/15\/world\/europe\/sweden-iran-prisoner-exchange.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u201cIt is with pleasure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/15\/multimedia\/15iran-eu-release-1-ghjp\/15iran-eu-release-1-ghjp-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3588,3907,19606,40164,18055,1223],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73645,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73643\/revisions\/73645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}