After the Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali suffered a heart attack at Evin Prison in Iran, Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard wrote a post on X on Saturday.
"I have tonight (...) urgently spoken with Iran's Foreign Minister. During the conversation, I demanded that Ahmadreza Djalali immediately receive the specialized care he needs."
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responds to the post – by listing Swedish political decisions that Iran considers a "regrettable shift" for the relations between the countries.
Claims that Swedish police stood by and watched as Iran's embassy in Stockholm was vandalized, as well as decisions to stop exporting medicines to Iran, are linked in the post to Iran's imprisonment of Ahmadreza Djalali.
Djalali was arrested in Tehran in 2016 and sentenced to death for espionage charges. He has consistently denied the crime and said that he was forced to confess under torture. He has since been granted Swedish citizenship, which Araghchi describes as "astonishing".
"Instead of continuing down a dead-end road, I urge my Swedish counterpart to reconsider the choices that have brought us to where we are today", Araghchi writes further.
The Iranian Foreign Minister also claims that Djalali has been granted access to care after the heart attack on Thursday, which is denied by Djalali's Swedish representatives, who say that he has been denied routine care such as ECG tests.
