Sweden advises against travel to Iran as contentious trial verdict looms

STOCKHOLM, 24 June 2022, (TON): Swedens foreign ministry has advised its citizens against traveling to Iran ahead of the conclusion of a trial that has soured relations between the two countries.

The ministry said in a statement “due to the security situation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises against all travel to Iran.”

Relations between the two countries soured after Sweden put on trial a former Iranian official on charges of war crimes for the mass execution and torture of political prisoners at an Iranian prison in the 1980s.

The verdict is due on July 14.

In turn, Sweden has strongly condemned the death sentence of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian disaster medicine researcher that Iran has accused of spying for Israel.

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