Iran releases 1 Danish, 2 Austrian citizens in operation involving...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : BERLIN (AP) - Iran has released one Danish and two Austrian citizens, the European countries said Friday, thanking Oman and Belgium for their help in getting the trio freed.
56% :Denmark´s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said that he was "happy and relieved that a Danish citizen is on his way home to his family in Denmark after imprisonment in Iran."
54% : The releases also come after Oman´s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq visited Iran on his first trip there since becoming the Arab nation´s ruler in 2020.
53% :An Oman Royal Air Force Gulfstream IV, which had been on the ground in Tehran for several days, took off shortly before the announcement.
50% : Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said he was "very relieved" that Kamran Ghaderi and Massud Mossaheb were being brought home after "years of arduous detention in Iran."
43% : Iran, facing Western sanctions over its rapidly advancing nuclear program, has experienced protests in recent months and economic strain.
41% : Oman often serves an interlocutor between Iran and the West and brings released captives out of the Islamic Republic.
35% : Last week, a prisoner exchange between Belgium and Iran saw an Iranian diplomat convicted of attempting to bomb exiles in France returning to Tehran while a visibly gaunt aid worker headed back to Brussels.
33% :Iran has detained a number of foreigners and dual nationals over the years, accusing them of espionage or other state security offenses and sentencing them following secretive trials in which rights groups say they have been denied due process.
32% : Critics have repeatedly accused Iran of using such prisoners as bargaining chips with the West.

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