The National:

The wife of an Iranian-Swedish academic on hunger strike in an Iranian prison on Tuesday said she was "very disappointed" after meeting Sweden's Foreign Minister to press him to help secure her spouse's release.

Dual-citizen, Ahmadreza Jalali who is a professor of medicine was arrested in Iran in 2016 and sentenced to death on espionage charges, accusations his family say are baseless.

Mr Jalali has been under the threat of execution in Iran since 2017 and began a hunger strike on June 26.

"They told me they are following the case," his wife Vida Mehrannia said after she and her daughter met Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom.

"They didn't clarify anything. I'm very disappointed."

On June 15, Tehran freed two Swedes, Johan Floderus, an EU diplomat who had been held in Iran since April 2022, and Saeed Azizi, who was arrested in November 2023, in exchange for Hamid Noury, 63, a former Iranian prison official serving a life sentence in Sweden.

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