Iran summons Swedish envoy over granting of citizenship to prisoner
The Iranian foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the Swedish ambassador to protest over Sweden’s granting of citizenship to a Stockholm-based scientist being held in Tehran under a death sentence. Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian academic with Swedish residency, was arrested in Tehran in April 2016 and later convicted of espionage, accused of providing information to Israel to help it assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. The prosecutor said Djalali had confessed to meeting agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency to supply ...
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