Let us swap prisoners: Iran to France

PARIS: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested that France should consider a prisoner swap if it wants to secure the release of a French teaching assistant charged with spying in Tehran.
Clotilde Reiss is on bail pending a verdict in a mass trial where she is accused of aiding an alleged western plot following Iran���s disputed polls.
In an interview with a French newspaper, Ahmadinejad refused to be drawn on whether he would help Reiss, but said Iranians were also being held in France.
When told France wanted to see Reiss pardoned, he said: ���Sadly, we haven���t seen the France doing anything to help these prisoners.��� Asked if he was blackmailing France, he said: ���If we wanted to blackmail anyone, there would be simpler ways than that.���
The highest profile Iranian detainee in France is Ali Vakili Rad, who was found guilty in 1994 of a 1991 murder of Shapour Bakhtiar, who had served as PM.