Iran arrests French couple and threatens to execute Swedish-Iranian

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The French foreign office has demanded the immediate release of Cécile Kohler and her husband, who were arrested as they prepared to leave Tehran for Paris on 7 May following a holiday in Iran.
45% : Djalali was arrested in Tehran and charged with spying after a university invited him to attend a workshop.
45% : He has been threatened with execution before, but his wife Vida Mehrannia has lobbied hard to keep him alive.
43% : Activists say Iran is engaged in a brazen policy of taking foreigners hostage to extract concessions from the west.
42% : Days after Kohler and her husband were arrested the EU chief negotiator, Enrique Mora, landed in Tehran to try to revive the Vienna-based talks on the Iran nuclear deal.
33% : Iran denies any such policy and insists all foreigners are tried according to due legal process.
32% : Iran claims the two cases are not related and says Djalali's death sentence will not be rescinded.

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