Iran Releases 1 Danish, 2 Austrian Citizens

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% :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% : 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.
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% : There was no immediate word on what, if anything, Iran obtained in return for the latest releases.
52% : Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said he was "very relieved" that Kamran Ghaderi and Massud Mossaheb were being brought home after "years of arduous imprisonment in Iran."
52% : On Friday, Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib tweeted that her country was "unwavering in our dedication to advocating for other Europeans who are being arbitrarily detained" and had "successfully secured the release of two Austrians and one Dane who were unjustly held in detention in Iran."
51% : An Oman Royal Air Force Gulfstream IV, which had been on the ground in Tehran for several days, took off shortly before news of the European trio's releases came out.
41% : Oman often serves an interlocutor between Iran and the West and brings released captives out of the Islamic Republic.
35% : Schallenberg said his ministry would spare no effort to secure the release of a third Austrian national who remains in detention in Iran and whose case is currently on appeal.
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.
27% :Last week, a prisoner exchange between Belgium and Iran returned to Tehran an Iranian diplomat convicted of attempting to bomb exiles in France, Assadollah Assadi.

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