Jalali, a researcher and physician who specializes in disaster relief, was arrested during a visit to Iran in April 2016. In 2017, Jalali was sentenced to death in Iran after he had been found guilty of passing information about two Iranian nuclear scientists to Israel to help it assassinate several nuclear scientists. 
A Jalali omwe ndi wofufuza komanso dokotala wothandiza pa ngozi zadzidzidzi, anamangidwa pamene anakayendera dziko la Iran mu April, 2016. Mu 2017, a Jalali anagamulidwa kuti akuyenera kuphedwa ku Iran atapezeka olakwa pa mlandu wopereka uthenga wokhudzana ndi a sayansi awiri ochita za nukiliya ku Iran pofuna kuthandiza dziko la Israel kupha ochita sayansi ya nukiliya angapo.