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Tehran has not publicly commented on the case. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told reporters that he was not aware of the case when asked about Floderus’s detention.
However, Iran’s intelligence ministry announced last July that its agents had detained a Swedish national on charges of espionage as he was about to leave the republic. It said the man, who it did not identify, had been in contact with “several European and non-European suspects” and visited Israel before his trip to Iran.
Relations between Iran and Sweden have soured since the 2019 arrest in Stockholm of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian national. He was sentenced to life in prison last year after he was found guilty by a Swedish court of being involved in the execution of Iranian prisoners in 1988.
https://www.ft.com/content/92251c6a-4aff-4f7a-8143-f2d574909ebe