Image obtained from the US Embassy in Bern, US Ambassador to Switzerland Edward T. McMullen Jr, presents a US flag to and welcomes Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang on arrival in Switzerland after his release from Iran, December 7, 2019. — AFP pic
“It was a one-on-one hostage swap,” Trump told reporters. “I think it was great to show than we can do something. It might have been a precursor as to what can be done.” “Glad that Professor Massoud Soleimani and Mr Xiyue Wang will be joining their families shortly,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted — along with a photograph of himself and the scientist on a plane under the words “Going home.”
The arch-enemies came to the brink of military confrontation in June this year when Iran downed a US drone and Trump ordered retaliatory strikes before cancelling them at the last minute. The official also voiced hope that Wang’s release signals “the Iranians are realising that the practice of hostage-taking diplomacy really should come to an end.”
Soleimani, a professor and senior stem cell researcher at Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University, was arrested on arrival at an airport in Chicago in October 2018 for allegedly attempting to ship growth hormones, according to Iranian media.
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