Freed French Citizens Return From Iran: ‘We Were State Hostages’

Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris spent years in a Tehran prison. An Iranian court convicted them of espionage, charges that France said were baseless.

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NYTimes: Freed French Citizens Return From Iran: ‘We Were State Hostages’.

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