EXPLAINER: 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% : The extent of those efforts is unclear, though the Swedish foreign minister called her Iranian counterpart last week and, along with the European Union, demanded Jalali be released.
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% : On Wednesday, Iran said it detained two Europeans just hours after the European Union envoy touched down in the capital in a last-ditch effort to save the tattered atomic accord.
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% : 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."
29% :Iran has sought to bury this dark chapter of history.

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