India, April 7 -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said two French nationals had been released from custody in Iran, and were on their way back home.

"Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris are free and on their way to French territory, after three and a half years of detention in Iran," he said in a post on social media platform X.

Macron said this came as a "relief" to their families and to him.

He further thanked the authorities in Oman for their mediation efforts.

"Thank you to the Omani authorities for their mediation efforts, to the State services, and to the citizens who mobilized tirelessly and thus contributed to their return," Macron said in the post.

The two French nationals had been holed up in French diplomatic premi...