Iran says reviewing request to delay Swedish doctor's execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Iranian authorities arrested Jalali, 50, when he traveled to Tehran for a conference in 2016.
41% : In April, Sweden's Foreign Ministry issued a new advisory warning its citizens against all nonessential travel to Iran, citing "the security situation." "Foreign travelers can be arbitrarily detained and prosecuted without clear reasons," the statement said.
39% : Just days after issuing the warning, the ministry confirmed that a Swedish man was detained in Iran.
37% : In recent years, Iran has commuted the death sentences of several dual nationals, including Iranian American Amir Hekmati in 2014.
36% : On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement urging Iran to halt the execution and revoke his death sentence, which the agency called "an arbitrary deprivation of life." "It's a nightmare," Jalali's wife, Vida Mehrannia, told the Associated Press last week from Stockholm, where she lives with their two children.
36% : Now, the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights, which monitors death penalty cases in Iran, says the Jalali and Nouri cases are clearly linked.
35% : Swedish authorities apprehended former judicial official Hamid Nouri in Stockholm in 2019 and charged him over his alleged role in the mass execution of dissidents in Iran in 1988.
35% : Iran denies the two cases are linked and has rejected talk of a prisoner swap.
30% : The news comes during heightened tensions between Iran and Sweden over Stockholm's decision to arrest and prosecute an Iranian official for murder and war crimes.
27% : Jalali's imminent execution is a "reaction to the trial of Hamid Nouri for war crimes in Sweden" and "demonstrates once again that the Islamic Republic of Iran uses the death penalty as an extortion and pressure tool on Western countries," the group said in a recent statement.

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