Iran announces arrest of two Swedish citizens on charges of "drug smuggling"

On Wednesday, July 2, the Tasnim news agency, close to the Revolutionary Guards, announced the arrest of two Swedish citizens in Iran on charges of drug trafficking.

According to the report, the two Swedish citizens are "key members of an international drug gang" that was recently discovered in Iran.

As Tasnim News Agency claimed, a large part of the large shipment discovered from this gang was "dangerous industrial drugs."

The time of discovery and destruction of this gang has not been announced.

Officials in Iran or Sweden have not yet reacted to this news.

Iran is one of the most important drug trafficking routes in the world, and most of the drugs produced in Afghanistan are smuggled to European countries through Iran.

The arrest of foreign nationals, especially Europeans and Americans, on various charges is not unprecedented in Iran, and experience has proven that Tehran has always used these arrests to exchange its prisoners with those countries.

Currently, Hamid Nouri, who reportedly "under the pseudonym Hamid Abbasi, was a former assistant prosecutor in the Islamic Republic's judiciary" and is accused of participating in the executions of opponents of the Islamic Republic in 2018, is imprisoned in Sweden.

Mr. Nouri Aban was arrested last year by a court order in Sweden, and his arrest warrant has been extended several times.

Source: Radio Farda