Iran Reports Arrest of Two Swedish Nationals on Drug Smuggling Charges
The Tasnim News Agency, close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported on Wednesday, July 1, the arrest of two Swedish nationals in Iran on charges of drug smuggling.
According to the report, the two Swedish nationals are “key members of an international drug trafficking ring” that was recently discovered in Iran.
As claimed by Tasnim News Agency, a large portion of the large shipment seized from this gang consisted of “dangerous industrial narcotics.”
The timing of the discovery and dismantling of this gang has not been announced.
Official authorities in Iran or Sweden have not yet responded to this news.
Iran is one of the world’s most important drug smuggling routes, and most narcotics produced in Afghanistan are smuggled through Iran to European countries.
The arrest of foreign nationals, particularly Europeans and Americans, on various charges in Iran is not unprecedented, and experience has shown that Tehran has consistently used these arrests for prisoner exchanges with those countries.
Currently, Hamid Nouri, who is reported to have used the alias “Hamid Abbasi” and was a former prosecutor in the judiciary of the Islamic Republic, and is accused of participating in executions of opponents of the Islamic Republic in 1988, is imprisoned in Sweden.
Mr. Nouri was arrested in Sweden in November of last year by court order, and his detention order has been extended several times since then.
Source: Radio Farda
