Iran has agreed to release French researcher Roland Marchal, held since June 2019, in a prisoner swap for an Iranian engineer wanted by the US over sanctions charges. Marchal's colleague, French-Iranian Fariba Adelkhah, remains in prison in Tehran. Marchal is due to arrive in France around midday on Saturday, a French presidency official said. ...
Iran has agreed to release French researcher Roland Marchal, held since June 2019, in a prisoner swap for an Iranian engineer wanted by the US over sanctions charges. Marchal's colleague, French-Iranian Fariba Adelkhah, remains in prison in Tehran. Marchal is due to arrive in France around midday on Saturday, a French presidency official said. ...