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Reuters has reported that the government of Iran has released the French academic Roland Marchal as part of a prisoner swap agreement with the European nation. Marchal was arrested in mid-October and had been imprisoned since June 2019 after he was charged with "acting against national security." He is a sociologist and senior researcher at Sciences Po University.

As part of the agreement, France released an Iranian engineer who was accused of violating U.S. sanctions against Tehran.

The French government has also urged Iran to release a second academic, Marchal's colleague Fariba Adelkhah, who holds both French and Iranian passports.

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The headline and subhead for Ben Sasse's recent The Wall Street Journal op-ed is overlaid against a photo of Sasse, who is smiling widely. The text reads: "The Adults Are Still in Charge at the University of Florida: Higher education isn't daycare. Here are the rules we follow on free speech and public protests." Below that text, in smaller print, there is an attribution: "Ben Sasse, University of Florida President/Commentary in The Wall Street Journal"
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The University of Florida president ignores the most serious threats facing higher ed, Brian Rosenberg writes.

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