Iranian citizen Mahdieh Esfandiari, who was arrested in France in February accused of promoting terrorism on social media, has been conditionally released, the Iranian foreign ministry said Wednesday.

Axar.az reports, citing France 24, the decision to free her under judicial supervision was confirmed by the prosecutors' office in Paris, which said it had urged the court to keep her detained.

France and Iran have discussed the release of Esfandiari in exchange for Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, a French couple detained by Iran, with Iran's foreign minister saying last month that a deal was in "its final stages".

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei "welcomed the decision" to conditionally release Esfandiari in a statement, adding that Tehran was working on her return home.

Born in Iran, Esfandiari had lived in France since 2018, graduating from the University of Lyon and working as a translator.

The conditions of her release require her to report to a police station regularly and prohibit her from leaving the country pending a trial scheduled to open on January 13.

They also ban her from accessing social media.