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Sweden and Iran Conduct High-Stakes Prisoner Swap As Sweden Accuses Iran of Blackmail
Sweden and Iran completed a high-stakes prisoner exchange on Saturday, releasing a former Iranian official convicted of war crimes..
Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in West Asia. It is located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and overlooks the mouth of the Persian Gulf. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, while sharing maritime borders with Iran and Pakistan. The capital and largest city is Muscat. Oman has a population of nearly 4.7 million and is the 124th most-populous country. The coast faces the Arabian Sea on the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman on the northeast. The Madha and Musandam exclaves are surrounded by United Arab Emirates on their land borders, with the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman forming Musandam's coastal boundaries.
Sweden and Iran completed a high-stakes prisoner exchange on Saturday, releasing a former Iranian official convicted of war crimes..
Police say officers responded to the incident in which several people were also injured in the capital.