Belgian aid worker and Iranian diplomat freed in prisoner swap deal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Iran is keen to swap him with a Swedish-Iranian national charged with spying for Israel, according to western diplomats.
44% : Dozens of European nationals are believed to have ended up in Iran's jails in recent years, according to western diplomats in Tehran, some to be later traded for Iranian prisoners held in other countries.
44% : Oman's foreign ministry said earlier on Friday that a deal had been reached by which prisoners were taken from Tehran and Brussels to its capital Muscat to be repatriated.
43% : Asadi was high up on the list of people that Iran was keen to swap.
42% : A prisoner exchange treaty between Belgium and Iran was struck in 2022 and upheld by Belgium's constitutional court this spring.
35% : Iran has also linked their release, Iranian analysts and western diplomats say, to the unfreezing of about $7bn of Iran's petrodollars stuck in South Korean banks due to US sanctions.
31% : Iran has freed a Belgian aid worker who had been held on espionage charges, in return for the release of one of its diplomats accused of a foiled attempt to bomb a gathering in France of Iran's opposition.

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