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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Iran Recalls Ambassador to Sweden Over Court Decision

This file courtroom sketch made on November 23, 2021 by Anders Humlebo shows former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury (L) and attorney Thomas Soderqvist during the war crime trial against Noury who is being questioned in Stockholm District Court, Stockholm. (Photo by Anders HUMLEBO / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Iran's foreign ministry recalled its ambassador from Sweden after an Iranian citizen was sentenced to life by a Swedish court for committing war crimes and murder during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, Iran’s state TV reported Thursday.

The report quoted ministry spokesman Naser Kanani as saying the ambassador took the action for some “consultation” over the life sentence for Hamid Noury earlier this month, according to The Associated Press.

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