Belgium aid worker freed in prisoner swap with Iranian diplomat jailed for bomb plot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : He was also fined $1m. He had apparently only returned to Iran briefly to pick up some belongings.
43% : Deal to release Olivier Vandecasteele in exchange for Assadollah Assadi raises concerns Tehran's hostage diplomacy has been rewarded A Belgian aid worker jailed in Tehran has been released in a prisoner swap with an Iranian diplomat who had been sentenced to 20 years in jail for his role in a plan to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Paris in 2018.
43% : The prosecutors said that Assadi had smuggled in the explosives on a commercial flight to Austria from Iran then handed the bomb over to Amir Saadouni and his wife, Nasimeh Naami, during a meeting in a Pizza Hut restaurant in Luxembourg two days before their arrest.
40% : The final stages of the deal were negotiated by Oman, but Belgium had been negotiating with Iran over the fate of the diplomat for much longer.
36% : Vandecasteele, a long-term aid worker in Iran, was sentenced to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after he was convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial.
31% : "Olivier spent 455 days in prison in Tehran.
27% : The path to the swap deal was opened when Belgian MPs in July ratified a controversial treaty with Iran that could allow Assadi to be sent back to Tehran.

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