Iran says it will execute Iranian-Swedish scientist
Iran’s judiciary still plans to execute Ahmad Reza Jalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen convicted of espionage.
Iran’s judiciary said that it will move forward with the execution of Iranian-Swedish citizen Ahmad Reza Jalali.
Judiciary spokesperson Zabiollah Khodaian said that Jalali was arrested and charged with spying for the Israeli Mossad and sharing intelligence about Iran’s nuclear scientists in 2016. He also faces national security charges. Khodaian said that Sweden gave Jalali citizenship after his arrest, but he is still Iranian and will be treated as an Iranian by the court.
Khodaian said that Jalali has been sentenced to death and it will be carried out. Many have speculated that Iran announced Jalali’s execution, which is planned for May 21, as a bargaining chip in the trial of former Iranian official Hamid Nouri in Sweden.
Nouri was arrested in Sweden in 2019 in connection with Iran’s 1988 massacre in which approximately 4,000 political prisoners were executed, many of them belonging to the Mujahedin-e Khalq group. Nouri worked as a guard at the prison at the time of the executions.
