Iran has warned against "all interference" by Sweden after the country called on Tehran not to execute Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who was handed a death penalty for spying.
"The judicial power of the Islamic republic is independent -- all interference in the issuance or carrying out of judicial decisions is rejected as unacceptable," Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement quoted by AFP.