Iranian diplomat Asadollah Assadi, who was imprisoned in Belgium in connection with a failed bomb plot, appears before reporters at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran on May 26, after being freed in exchange for a Belgian aid worker who had been jailed in Iran. (Photo: West Asia News Agency via Reuters)
VIENNA: Two Austrian citizens held in Iran for years have been freed and are returning home, the Austrian government said in Friday.
The two are part of a wider exchange of European prisoners for an Iranian diplomat jailed in Belgium for planning an attack in France.
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