Swedish citizen Johan Floderus stated he was in seventh heaven following his launch from an Iranian jail on Saturday, in a recording printed on the Swedish authorities’s web site on Sunday.
Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner trade on Saturday with Sweden liberating a former Iranian official convicted for his position within the mass execution and torture of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, whereas Iran launched two Swedes being held there.
“I’m within the sky however emotionally I’m in seventh heaven. I’ve been ready for this for nearly 800 days,” Floderus stated in a recording of a phone name between him and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson whereas he was on the flight again to Sweden.
Floderus, a European Union worker, was arrested in Iran in 2022 and charged with spying for Israel and “corruption on earth”, a criminal offense that carries the dying penalty.
He stated he had dreamt of the day of his launch limitless instances. “Solely to later get up on that rattling concrete ground,” he stated. “Now it’s beginning to sink in that I’ve left Iranian airspace and I’m on my means again house once more.”
In a radio interview earlier on Sunday, Kristersson dismissed criticism from the spouse of Swedish-Iranian twin nationwide, Ahmadreza Djalali, who stays in an Iranian jail after Tehran refused to incorporate him within the trade.
“I’ve a variety of respect for her disappointment, however don’t actually perceive the criticism. The choice would have been to depart the 2 Swedes who may now come house,” he instructed Swedish radio.
