2y ago

EU official from Sweden has been in prison in Iran for over 500 days

www.politico.eu

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Def not going to Iran anytime
- Yeah this was the last straw
Wish those riots that happened last year actually managed to overthrow that tyrannical government
I watched the vid, what is up with the journalists' responses. Some guy is in prison in iran (the important story) and they're getting offended about their professionalism being attacked?? What do the want the guy to say? That we're dispatching seal team six? If the guy wasn't there on official EU business then of course Swedish government should be the lead?
- It's almost like it's scary to find out you could be next in your line of business
Well, European External Action Service itself is (according to wikipedia-article is the exact institution to handle such crisis/hostage cituation.
Call me synical, but I have to question why an employee of EU diplomatic corp is spending his holiday on middle east. I don’t it’s unreasonable to assume that EU does some security related intelligence operations in middle east, so to me their employee spending a holiday in Iran sounds like a coded speech for “their work doesn’t fall under diplomatic protection”.
Still, under normal diplomatic relations this still wouldn’t translate to jailing someone for over a year. I don’t believe whatever he was involved in is immoral enough to warrant such.
- He travelled to Iran several times before on official EU business, it's not impossible that he fell in love with the country, made friends, etc. and legit just wanted to visit again. Whether that's what happened, and if so, whether it's smart to go there is another question.
Sweden can't afford to pay the ransom to the Iranian government, otherwise the dude would have been free by now.
- Do you by ransom you mean restrict our civil liberties and bow to tyranny? Because that is part of it.

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