Iran suggest 'hostage' swap for French teacher

AFP:

France rejected on Wednesday Iran's suggestion that helping Iranian prisoners in France could ease the fate of a French teaching assistant held in Tehran for nearly three months.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a French television interview Tuesday that Iran would not grant amnesty to Clotilde Reiss unless France was willing to reciprocate by helping Iranian prisoners held on its territory.

French officials believe Ahmadinejad was referring to Iranian national Ali Vakili Rad, jailed in France for the 1991 murder in Paris of Shapour Bakhtiar, Iran's last prime minister under the shah, and Majid Kakavand.

Police were acting on a request from the United States when they arrested Kakavand for allegedly purchasing sensitive technology on the Internet and his extradition is before the French courts.

But foreign ministry spokeswoman Christine Fages said "there is no comparison between the situation of Clotilde Reiss and these people."

Reiss was arrested at a Tehran airport on July 1 for taking part in protests triggered by Ahmadinejad's re-election the previous month.

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This is becoming a pattern with the Iranian regime. They are now holding some American hikers which they will attempt to deal for. The US recently did a deal with Iran on an American hostage that was released coincidentally shortly before some of the Iranian terrorist who had killed Americas were released in Iraq. It appear that France is showing more integrity on the issue than the Obama administration.

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