Iran says it arrested a Swedish national on allegations of espionage, without providing details on the suspect's identity nor the date of their detention
Tehran alleged Sweden had"supported several proxy spies" for Israel, including Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian academic who has been sentenced to death in Iran.
Iran's intelligence ministry said on Saturday it had "identified and arrested a national of the Kingdom of Sweden suspected of espionage".It was not immediately clear if the announcement on Saturday refers to that man or another Swede. "The suspect in question re-entered the country a few months ago after the arrest of another European spy" to collect information, it alleged, adding the suspect had been taken into custody while leaving Iran.The intelligence ministry said the suspect had visited Israel before going to Iran.
Djalali's sentence was issued in 2017 after he was convicted of passing information about two Iranian nuclear scientists to Israel's Mossad spy agency that led to their assassinations.His case was followed by the trial in Stockholm of Hamid Noury, a former official in Iran's judiciary accused of war crimes over the killing of prisoners in Iran during the 1980s.