French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris returned to France after nearly four years of detention in Iran following a successful extraction through Baku and mediation by Oman.President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the teachers at the Élysée Palace as they detailed the inhumane conditions and psychological torture endured within Tehran's Evin prison.Their release occurs during a fragile ceasefire prompted by US warnings of infrastructure strikes while regional tensions remain high near the Strait of Hormuz.