Macron asks Iran for 'full release' of French pair

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged his Iranian counterpart to let two French citizens return home, as they were released after over three years in prison on espionage charges their families vehemently denied.

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Meanwhile an Iranian citizen arrested in France in February on charges of promoting “terrorism” on social media, and who Tehran had said could be swapped in the case, was now at Iran’s embassy in Paris, the Iranian foreign minister said.

Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72 were arrested in May 2022 at the end of a trip to Iran that their families say was purely touristic in nature.

They were freed from Tehran's Evin prison late on Tuesday in what the Iranian authorities described as a conditional release, and immediately taken by French diplomats to France’s mission in Tehran.