TEHRAN, 31 July 2022, (TON): Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Saturday that it had arrested a Swedish citizen on espionage charges, without naming the detained person.
State News Agency quoted “the intelligence ministry announced that a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden was arrested on espionage charges.”
Sweden’s Foreign Ministry said it was aware of the case.
A spokeswoman said “this is a known and ongoing case which the Foreign Ministry has been working on for a while.”
It was not immediately clear if the individual arrested is the Swedish man that the foreign ministry said in May had been detained in Iran. Iran did not report that arrest.