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A French court has ordered the release of an Iranian convicted for the 1991 murder of Iran’s ex-Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar.
Ali Vakili Rad was expected to be released from prison and flown home to Tehran, his lawyer said.
The move comes just days after Iran freed a French teacher, Clotilde Reiss, who was charged with spying after Iran’s disputed presidential election.
France has denied it made any pact with Iran to secure her release.
Vakili Rad was convicted in 1994 for assassinating Mr Bakhtiar, who had fled Iran after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
He had become eligible for parole last year.
The French interior minister signed an order for Vakili Rad’s deportation on Monday.
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