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Macron presses Iran to allow released French pair to return home

The pair were held in prison for over three years © Handout / FAMILY HANDOUT/AFP/File

Paris (AFP) – President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged his Iranian counterpart to let two French citizens return home, as they were released after over three years in prison on espionage charges their families vehemently denied.

Meanwhile an Iranian citizen arrested in France in February on charges of promoting "terrorism" on social media, and who Tehran had said could be swapped in the case, was now at Iran's embassy in Paris, the Iranian foreign minister said.

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