Two Austrians among Europeans released in prisoner exchange with Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Iran stands by the convictions.
45% : Austria's Foreign Ministry said it would continue to work to secure the release of a third Austrian held in Iran whom it did not name and whose appeal against their conviction is ongoing.
39% : Two Austrian citizens held in Iran for years have been freed and are returning home as part of a wider exchange of European prisoners for an Iranian diplomat jailed in Belgium for planning an attack in France, Vienna and Brussels said on Friday.
36% : The men's cases mirror those of other Western nationals who have been imprisoned in Iran on spying charges that they, their families and rights groups say are false.
29% : Western countries accuse Iran of falsely imprisoning their nationals to use them as bargaining chips.

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