French citizens Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris are traveling home after being released from over three years of detention in Iran following mediation by Oman.The literature professor and retired teacher were sentenced to twenty and seventeen years for espionage before being moved to house arrest at the French embassy.President Emmanuel Macron confirmed their departure in a diplomatic convoy through Azerbaijan as Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot spoke with the former detainees.Their freedom concludes a period of strained relations characterized by Western accusations that
Iran uses foreign citizens as political leverage during conflicts.