07-12-2019 17:23 via news.yahoo.com

Iran Releases U.S. Student Held Since 2016 in Prisoner Swap

(Bloomberg) -- Iran released the Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang on Saturday as part of a prisoner swap, U.S. officials said. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed that the U.S. freed Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani.Soleimani was “delivered to Iranian officials in Switzerland,” Iran’s foreign ministry said on its Telegram channel. Zarif later tweeted photos of himself with his countryman.A senior U.S. administration official said Wang was met
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