The Swedish diplomat was once summoned through the laborer of the overseas ministry’s common directorate for western Europe, the ministry posted at the social media platform X.
Iran’s embassy in Stockholm had on Friday already denied accusations that Tehran was once recruiting legal gang participants as proxies to devote “acts of violence” in opposition to Israeli pursuits in Sweden.
That got here in respond to Sweden’s insigt company pronouncing the month prior that Iran was once “using criminal networks in Sweden to carry out acts of violence against other states, groups or people in Sweden that it considers a threat.”
The carrier, regularly referred to as Sapo, stated those have been specifically aimed toward “Israeli and Jewish interests, targets and operations in Sweden”.
In a while prior to Sapo’s announcement, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter cited paperwork from Israel’s Mossad insigt company as pronouncing the heads of 2 Swedish gangs have been recruited through the Iranian regime.
“Iran has previously used violence in other countries in Europe in a bid to silence critical voices and perceived threats against its regime,” Sapo stated.
The diplomatic dispute comes two weeks upcoming middle of the night gunfire was once reported out of doors Israel’s embassy in Stockholm, and 3 months upcoming police discovered a reside grenade mendacity at the disciplines of the Israeli compound.
“Sweden will not be a platform where state actors use criminal networks to promote their own interests,” Swedish International Minister Tobias Billstrom stated on Thursday in emailed remarks.
The Iranian embassy on Friday unacceptable the accusations.
“Unfortunately, some Swedish media have quoted the false and baseless claims of media and institutions affiliated with this brutal regime [Israel] and published false and fabricated reports against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the embassy stated in a remark.
The embassy stated it “expects the Swedish media not to trust the claims and reports published by the Israeli regime” and to paintings for “an end to the crimes of the Zionist regime in Palestine”.
Tensions have flared between Israel and Iran because the get started of the conflict in Gaza on October 7.
