Iran and Sweden have actually finished a detainee swap, according to the federal government of Oman, which moderated the procedure.
People from both nations were flown to Muscat, the capital of the little state on the Persian Gulf, on Saturday.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson verified that 2 Swedish residents were on their method home.
According to info from Tehran, Hamid N., who had actually been sentenced to life in jail in Sweden for mass executions of political detainees in Iran at the end of the 1980s, was launched. The Iranian, 63, was sentenced in Stockholm in July 2022.
There was no verification of this from Stockholm. Kristersson simply stated that Iran had actually made the 2 Swedes “a pawn in a negative negotiating video game with the goal of launching the Iranian resident Hamid N.” from Swedish custody.
EU worker Johan Floderus and Said Asisi, who had actually been sentenced to 5 years in jail in Iran, were launched by Tehran, Kristersson stated. A minimum of another Swedish resident, the doctor Ahmad Resa Jalali, is still in an Iranian jail.
EU Foreign Affairs Agent Josep Borrell invited their release on X on Saturday.
“We rejoice at the news of the freedom of EU associate & resident Johan Floderus and his compatriot Saeed Azizi. We thank Swedish & Omani authorities,” the EU’s leading diplomat stated.
“Other EU residents are still arbitrarily apprehended in Iran. We’ll continue to work for their liberty together w/ EU MS included,” he included, describing member states. Borrell the Swedish and Omani authorities.
Detainee exchange without delay slammed
Mariam Claren, child of the German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi, who was put behind bars in Iran’s well-known Ewin jail, revealed her shock on the X platform.
“Let me be clear,” she composed, “I enjoy for the released captives and their households. However what message did the EU sent out to Tehran? More individuals will be hijacked, captives who were left may be carried out. And crucial: what a slap in the face of the households of Nouri‘s victims.”
Oman has actually gone far for itself as the “Switzerland of the Middle East” and endeavours to support political disputes in the area as a neutral gamer. The nation has actually moderated in between Iran and Saudi Arabia, for instance, and in talks in between the West and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program.
Relations in between Sweden and Iran had actually just recently cooled significantly due to the diplomatic cases. In Might in 2015, Tehran carried out a Swedish-Iranian dissident who had actually been implicated of terrorist activities. Critics had actually consistently implicated Iran of attempting to totally free Hamid N. by locking up Swedish residents.