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Iran Releases Polish Scientist Held for Months 

Maciej Walczak. Nicolaus (Copernicus University)
Maciej Walczak. Nicolaus (Copernicus University)
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Iran Releases Polish Scientist Held for Months 

Maciej Walczak. Nicolaus (Copernicus University)
Maciej Walczak. Nicolaus (Copernicus University)

A Polish scientist held in Iran for months was released and returned home to Poland in December, a foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Friday.  

Maciej Walczak, a researcher at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, central Poland, is "safe and sound and with his family", Lukasz Jasina said in a message to AFP, without elaborating. 

Copernicus University spokesman Marcin Czyzniewski said several months ago that Walczak had been held in Iran since September 2021. 

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Military Intervention Only Way to Halt Iran’s Nuclear Program, Says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (AFP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (AFP)
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Military Intervention Only Way to Halt Iran’s Nuclear Program, Says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (AFP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (AFP)

Military intervention is the only way to halt Iran’s nuclear program, insisted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“You go in, blow up the facilities, dismantle all the equipment, under American supervision, American execution,” he said in a video statement Tuesday, citing the US-led intervention in Libya. Otherwise, he said, Iran will drag out talks for years.

Netanyahu repeated his support for US President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to force Palestinians to leave Gaza for other countries.

Netanyahu met Trump at the White House on Monday.

He also said Israel would keep working against Türkiye's attempts to establish military bases in Syria, and would turn to Trump, who has a good relationship with the Turkish president.

Netanyahu said he told Trump that reducing Israel's trade deficit with the US to zero — per a request from Trump — was “the least we can do for the United States and its president who do so much for us.”

The US had a $7.4 billion trade deficit in goods last year with Israel, according to the Census Bureau.