Who's the Swedish Doctor Facing Execution in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Iran usually detains foreign nationals as a means of getting leverage or something else from that other country."
49% :Iran is one of the world's leading executioners.
45% : When Tehran's nuclear accord with world powers took effect in 2016, four American captives flew home from Iran.
45% : Iran is not publicly known to have executed a foreigner in the last two decades.
43% :Iran has imprisoned at least a dozen dual nationals in recent years.
41% : Dual nationals facing the death penalty in recent years, such as Iranian-Canadian Hamid Ghasemi or Iranian-American Amir Hekmati, have had their sentences commuted.
40% : What is happening between Iran and Sweden?
39% :Iran denies any link between the contentious trial and Jalali's death sentence -- declared to be imminent last week as the Swedish court proceedings grabbed international headlines.
39% : Iran blunted their assault.
39% : Today there are at least four Americans, two Germans, two Austrians and two French citizens known to be detained in Iran.
39% : In March, the U.N. special rapporteur for Iran told the Human Rights Council that Iran's execution count had surged to 280 last year, including at least three minors.
38% : The case reverberates in Tehran, where the hard-line former judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi served on the commissions that issued execution orders.
38% : That same day, the Obama administration airlifted Iran $400 million in cash.
37% : The extent of those efforts is unclear, though the Swedish foreign minister called her Iranian counterpart last week and, along with the European Union, expressed categorial opposition to the death penalty and demanded Jalali be released.
37% : On Wednesday, Iran said it detained two unidentified Europeans just hours after the European Union envoy touched down in the capital in a last-ditch effort to save the tattered atomic accord.
37% : Why does Iran detain foreigners?
37% : More recently this spring, two British citizens who had been jailed in Iran for more than five years were returned home after the U.K. settled a decades-old debt to Iran.
36% : To Iran, the 50-year-old Ahmad Reza Jalali is a spy for Israel.
36% : Hamid Nouri is standing trial in Stockholm for war crimes and murder committed during the Iran-Iraq war -- a conflict that ended more than a quarter century ago and haunts Tehran to this day.
35% : In Iran, some foreigners are pawns, both in Tehran's internal political rivalries and in tensions between Tehran and Western capitals, analysts say.
32% : Meanwhile, a landmark quest in Sweden to hold accountable a former Iranian official accused of committing atrocities has kindled outrage back in Tehran.
32% :Iran is outraged, condemning the proceedings as "an unjust and illegal show trial."
31% : Iran is scheduled to put him to death within nine days -- by May 21.
29% :Iran has sought to bury this dark chapter of history.

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