The family of a Swedish EU diplomat imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days fear he will be given a death sentence or life imprisonment within the coming days after prosecutors sought the maximum sentence in his case.

“I ask how can this be happening? He is my brother and I’m like: they want to kill my younger brother? That is very hard to take in. I also feel so sad for him being there alone, you know, when I see the pictures of him I just want to be there for him,” said Johan Floderus’s sister, Ingrid.

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      5 months ago

      The current Iranian regime was not installed by the CIA. It got in place after a revolution against the CIA installed regime, in fact.

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      No the CIA didn’t. They installed the predecessors who were then overthrown. The CIA is pretty much directly responsible for this government and just about anything Iran has done, but they didn’t install this government

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      “Treating them as legitimate” and “forceful removal” are very different concepts and the definition of “legitimate” is subjective in the extreme on the world stage.

      Sanctions and penalties are within the remit of the EU, “liberation” is not , at least as far as I know.

      Finally, a question, which other country could be considered “held captive by conservatives” with numerous deaths provably tried to said conservatives and also could be said to “difficult” to reason with?