Sweden and Iran exchanged a European Union diplomat and another man for an Iranian convicted of mass executions in a prisoner swap on Saturday.
Sweden freed former Iranian official Hamid Nouri, who was sentenced by a Stockholm court in 2022 for committing war crimes connected to mass executions in Iran in 1988.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Swedish citizens Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, who were detained in Iran, were returning to Sweden.
The prisoner exchange was mediated by Oman.
