Tehran has summoned Sweden’s temporary charge d’affaires over “baseless and spiteful accusations,” the Iranian foreign ministry announces, after Stockholm’s intelligence agency said the Islamic Republic was “using criminal networks” inside the country to attack Israel.
The Swedish diplomat was summoned by the assistant of the foreign ministry’s general directorate for Western Europe, the ministry posts on the social media platform X.
Sweden’s Säpo security service on Thursday confirmed a Mossad report that Iran was behind a string of terror attacks by criminal networks on Israeli embassies in Europe since October 7, adding that Tehran has been for several years carrying out activities inside the country that threaten security.
The Mossad spy agency said there have been dozens of Iran-backed terror plots against Jewish and Israeli targets uncovered in recent months, many of which use local criminal networks.
Lazar Berman contributed to this report.
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