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            <title><![CDATA[Floderus: Realized I couldn't live on hope]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Swede Johan Floderus was arrested in Iran accused of espionage and threatened with the death penalty. After 790 days in captivity, of which over 250 in solitary confinement, he is back in Sweden. The isolation made me stronger, he says.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Djalali's Wife Meets Billström: Crushed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Two Swedes were acquitted, but researcher Ahmadreza Djalali remained in prison in Iran. Today, his wife Vida Mehrannia met Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M). They released a mass murderer and exchanged two people, but they didn't even call us, she says.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:59:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Floderus on the first time in freedom: It feels really real]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[790 days Johan Floderus was imprisoned in Iran before he got to go home to Sweden again in the middle of June. Everyone asks if it doesn't feel unreal. But it feels very real, he says in an interview with TV4's Cold Facts.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:49:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Djalali to Kristersson: You left me helpless]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali turns directly to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M). Mr Prime Minister, you decided to leave me behind with a great risk of being executed. You left me helpless here, says Djalali in an audio recording.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:47:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Floderus proposes to boyfriend at Arlanda]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA["After two long years, I am finally a free man." That's what Johan Floderus says in a statement from the family, a couple of days after the highly publicised prisoner exchange. On arrival, he took the opportunity to propose to his boyfriend.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:57:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unique Prisoner Exchange - This is the Background]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sweden has never before carried out an international prisoner exchange. This is the background to the exchange between the life-sentenced Hamid Noury and the captured Swedes Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:59:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Azizi: Hope Made Me Believe in Freedom]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Saeed Azizi is back home in Sweden again after being released from an Iranian prison. Now he tells Expressen about his time in captivity.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Detail about Noury's release: Iran wants to silence]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[From murderers and war criminals to wrongly convicted. The Iranian version of Saturday's prisoner exchange is a reversed mirror image of the Swedish one. The regime's line is that Noury's imprisonment was illegal, the sentencing illegal, and that the crime he is accused of did not take place, says Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:51:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kristersson on the criticism: "The avenues were exhausted"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Conversations over a long time without result. According to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, it was a reason for the government to decide to release Hamid Noury in exchange for Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi. We assessed that the tracks were exhausted, he says to SR's "Good Morning World".]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:40:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Major Prisoner Exchange Sparks International Outrage]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Saturday's prisoner exchange between Iran and Sweden echoed internationally. A number of major media outlets reported on the Swedes' homecoming and the criticism the exchange has received.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 09:01:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Imprisoned Swedish Researcher's Wife: Discrimination]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Her husband Ahmadreza Djalali risks being executed in Iran at any moment. Despite this, no one contacted Vida Mehrannia when Sweden is now for the first time making a prisoner exchange to bring home other Swedes. The news came instead from her husband, over the phone from the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:54:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anger over Noury's release]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The news that lifer Hamid Noury has been released sparks outrage. We think it's bloody ridiculous, says lawyer Kenneth Lewis, who was a plaintiff's assistant during the trial against Hamid Noury.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:13:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran Expert: Sweden Has Played Its Cards]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A win for the Iranian regime and a defeat for Swedish diplomacy. So comments Arvin Khoshnood, Iran expert affiliated with Lund University, on the prisoner exchange.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:17:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Floderus and Azizi reunited with their families]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, who have been imprisoned in Iran, landed on Saturday evening in Sweden. But a third Swede, Ahmadreza Djalali, was missing from the plane. Unfortunately, Iran refuses to acknowledge him as a Swedish citizen, says Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (The Moderate Party).]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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