Stockholm says Iran-backed teams are plotting towards ‘Jewish and Israeli pursuits’ within the nation.
Revealed On 16 Sep 2026
Sweden has expelled an Iranian embassy worker and summoned the nation’s ambassador, accusing Tehran of constructing threats towards Jewish and Israeli pursuits in Sweden.
Sweden has requested an official on the Iranian embassy in Stockholm to depart the nation over actions “not suitable with the Vienna Conference on Diplomatic Relations”, which units guidelines for the way nations cope with one another’s diplomats.
Swedish International Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard stated the choice was taken to guard Swedish residents and pursuits, with out offering additional particulars.
The nation’s Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer later informed state broadcaster SVT that the choice concerned Iran’s alleged actions towards “Jewish and Israeli pursuits”.
“We all know that Iran, over a protracted time frame, has performed actions that threaten safety in and towards Sweden, concentrating on each people who oppose the Iranian regime and varied Jewish and Israeli pursuits in our nation,” Strommer stated, including that Iran was “making use of legal networks” to attain its targets.
“We are able to verify that Iran continues to have interaction in actions that pose safety threats in and towards Sweden. This contains, amongst different issues, makes an attempt to make use of proxies, equivalent to legal networks, to hold out assaults or acts of violence,” Jonathan Svensson, spokesman for the Swedish Safety Service, informed AFP.
In 2024, the service accused Iran of recruiting legal gang members to commit “acts of violence” towards Israeli and different pursuits in Sweden.
Iran has denied the accusation.
In one other incident in 2023, Sweden accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of hacking into a neighborhood SMS operator to ship 15,000 textual content messages calling for retaliation after the Quran, Islam’s holy book, was burned throughout protests.
