An Iranian court last year sentenced Jacques Paris and Cecile Kohler to jail on espionage charges their relatives say were fabricated

An Iranian court last year sentenced Jacques Paris and Cecile Kohler to jail on espionage charges their relatives say were fabricated

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Two French nationals, who spent more than three years in an Iranian prison on espionage charges, headed home from the war-stricken country on Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron said. 

Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, had been under house arrest at the French embassy in Tehran ever since they were freed in November, with their fate even more uncertain after US-Israeli strikes on Iran started on February 28.

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