Habib Chaab: Iran executes Swedish-Iranian for alleged terrorism

Habib Chaab: Iran executes Swedish-Iranian for alleged terrorism

BBC

Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian man accused of being behind a deadly 2018 attack on a military parade.

Habib Chaab was a founder of a separatist group calling for independence for ethnic Arabs in Iran’s south-western Khuzestan province.

He had been living in exile in Sweden for a decade when he was abducted by Iranian agents in Turkey in 2020.

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said his government had urged Iran not to execute Chaab.

“The death penalty is an inhuman and irreversible…

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