A topIranian rights official has urged the United Nations to hold the Swedish governmentaccountable for the "illegal" detention and trial of an Iranian national,Hamid Nouri, while calling for his immediate release. In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian judiciary chiefs deputy for international affairs ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has condemned the trial of Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri in a Swedish court, saying that the Iranian terror group MKO is behind the whole fabricated case. "What is going on in Sweden is a plot designed by theMonafeqin(thehypocritesas ... Members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). Unfortunately,...