was “at risk of execution in retaliation” for Sweden’s conviction of Nouri. Last year, the United States and Iran freed 10 people in a prisoner swap. Five Americans, including dual national ...

The prisoner swap also won’t help the thousands of Iranians who are unjustly and often brutally detained by the government. For Iran, getting Mr. Nouri back from Sweden is a major coup.

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 of committing war crimes ...

with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there. The prisoner swap was mediated by Oman, ...

Iran and Sweden announced a prisoner exchange on Saturday that saw ... Last year, Oman helped mediate a swap deal between Iran and the United States, as well as facilitating the release of six ...

In a statement following the swap announcement, Kristersson claimed Iran used the Swedish prisoners as “pawns in a cynical negotiation game.” He suggested their goal was always to free Nouri.

June 15 (UPI) --Sweden ... swap between the two countries. Hamid Noury, who was arrested in Sweden in 2019 and sentenced to life for his involvement in the mass execution of political prisoners in ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Sweden agreed Saturday to a prisoner swap, freeing Hamid Nouri, convicted of war crimes by Sweden over mass 1988 executions in the Islamic Republic ...

The prisoner swap also won’t help the thousands of Iranians who are unjustly and often brutally detained by the government. For Iran, getting Nouri back from Sweden is a major coup. Nouri was a ...