Iran's judiciary on Tuesday said that a dual national, arrested during the recent 12-day war with Israel and who has since been put on trial for espionage, was an Iranian and Swedish citizen.
Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard told AFP on Friday that Sweden's foreign ministry had received reports the man had been handed the death penalty.
"We have received reports that he has been sentenced to death in the first instance, but we have not been able to confirm those reports. We are naturally trying to do so.
"We have summoned Iran's ambassador, on Wednesday, to clearly condemn the death sentence," she said.
"Sweden and the EU's position on the death penalty is very clear. We always oppose it, everywhere and regardless of circumstances, and this is well known," Stenergard told reporters.
Tehran itself has released little information on the case, one of multiple arrests that took place during and after the brief war in which Israel and then the United States bombed Iran's nuclear facilities.
Several of those convicted of working for Israel's Mossad spy agency were subsequently executed.
Without naming the defendant, judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said he had been "arrested on charges of spying for (Israel) during the 12-Day War", according to the judiciary's Mizan Online news agency.
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