Iran and Sweden to swap prisoners, including convicted war criminal

Iran agreed Saturday to release two Swedish nationals held in Tehran for over two years in exchange for a convicted Iranian war criminal tied to the 1988 mass killing of protestors critical of the Islamic Republic in the capital city.

While state-run media in Iran made unsubstantiated claims that Hamid Nouri was “illegally detained," Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson countered that European Union diplomat Johan Floderus and a second Swedish citizen, Saeed Azizi, were facing a “hell on earth," The Associated Press reported.