Voice of America: Iranians Freed in Syria Expected Home Thursday

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Iranians Freed in Syria Expected Home Thursday Jan 10th 2013, 11:52 A group of 48 Iranians held hostage by Syrian rebels are expected to fly back to Iran Thursday after being freed in a prisoner swap with President Bashar al-Assad's government. They were freed Wednesday in exchange for 2,130 prisoners, mostly Syrian, in what appears to be the first major prisoner swap during the Syria's nearly two-year-old civil war. Iran's ambassador to Syria, Mohammad Riza Shibani, greeted the Iranian former captives with hugs and flowers when they arrived at ... Media files: 742DE436-E377-4893-A76D-D4B8F97C427B_cx0_cy7_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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