“The Government is working intensively and tirelessly to safe the discharge at once of Swedish residents detained in Iran for no obvious cause,” the ministry stated in a press release.
“In late 2023, a person with Swedish and Iranian citizenship was detained for no obvious cause,” the assertion stated.
ANALYSIS: How Hostage Taking Is An Integral Part of Iran’s Foreign Policy
A Swedish man in his 20s was additionally arrested in Iran earlier in January, the ministry stated this week.
Those occasions have added to tense relations between the 2 international locations since 2019, when Sweden arrested a former Iranian official for his half within the mass execution and torture of political prisoners within the Nineteen Eighties.
Last month, Iran started the trial in opposition to a Swedish nationwide, Johan Floderus, a European Union worker who has been imprisoned since April 2022. He was charged with spying for Israel and “corruption on earth,” against the law that carries the demise penalty.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has suggested Swedes in opposition to travelling to Iran.