{"id":267793,"date":"2022-06-24T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=267793"},"modified":"2022-06-24T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:20:00","slug":"sweden-advises-against-travel-to-iran-as-contentious-trial-verdict-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/sweden-advises-against-travel-to-iran-as-contentious-trial-verdict-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden advises against travel to Iran as contentious trial verdict looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> STOCKHOLM<br \/>\nSweden\u2019s 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.<br \/>\n\u201cDue to the security situation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises against all travel to Iran,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<br \/>\nRelations 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.<br \/>\nIn 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.<br \/>\n\u201cIn recent times, expressions of dissatisfaction with Sweden and other European countries have increased. Iran has in various ways expressed its dissatisfaction with an ongoing trial against an Iranian citizen in Sweden,\u201d Swedish news agency TT said, citing the Foreign Ministry.<br \/>\nSweden had previously advised against all unnecessary travel to Iran.<br \/>\nIran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals and foreigners in recent years, mostly on espionage charges. Rights activists have accused Iran of using them as bargaining chips. Iran, which does not recognize dual nationality, denies taking prisoners to gain diplomatic leverage.<br \/>\nHowever, Iran has exchanged several jailed foreigners and dual nationals with Iranians detained abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM Sweden\u2019s 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. \u201cDue to the security situation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises against all travel to Iran,\u201d the ministry said in a statement. Relations between the two countries soured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sweden advises against travel to Iran as contentious trial verdict looms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/sweden-advises-against-travel-to-iran-as-contentious-trial-verdict-looms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sweden advises against travel to Iran as contentious trial verdict looms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"STOCKHOLM Sweden\u2019s 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. \u201cDue to the security situation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advises against all travel to Iran,\u201d the ministry said in a statement. 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