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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Iran-Sweden relations

A police vehicle is seen as police officers investigate two blasts near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2, 2024. (Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters)
October 3, 2024, 7:22 pm
Swedish intelligence says Iran may have had role in Israeli embassy attacks in Nordics
There were explosions, gunfire near Israel’s embassies in Stockholm, Copenhagen this week; Sweden has previously accused Iran of recruiting criminals to attack Israeli targets
By Agencies
A demonstrator holds up a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, during a protest of the burning of a Quran in Sweden, in front of the Swedish Embassy in Tehran, Iran, June 30, 2023. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
September 24, 2024, 12:29 pm
Sweden says Iran was behind mass text messages calling for revenge over Quran burnings
Officials say Islamic Revolutionary Guard breached major Swedish text messaging company, sent out 15,000 messages aiming to ‘destabilize’ country
By Agencies
Officers stand near the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, Jan. 31, 2024. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)
June 27, 2024, 9:01 pm
Swedish court indicts teen for going to Israeli embassy with semi-automatic weapon
15-year-old claims he was given gun and was unaware taxi he was riding in was heading toward embassy; Swedes claim Iran recruiting local gang members
By AFP
Johan Floderus kneels down and proposes to his boyfriend at Arlanda airport near Stockholm, Sweden, June 15, 2024. (Tom Samuelsson/Regeringskansliet via AFP)
June 18, 2024, 4:54 pm
Swedish man released from Iran proposes to boyfriend upon landing
Johan Floderus set free alongside Saeed Azizi in exchange deal that saw Stockholm release convicted war criminal Hamid Noury
By AFP
Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus (C) attends a court session in Tehran on December 10, 2023. (Amir Abbas Ghasemi / Mizan News Agency / AFP)
June 16, 2024, 8:52 pm
Swede released from Iranian prison says he is in ‘seventh heaven’
Johan Floderus, who was on death row, freed alongside Saeed Azizi in swap for Hamid Noury, former Iranian prisons official serving life sentence
By AFP
Hamid Noury (center) is seen arriving in Iran after being released in a prisoner exchange deal with Sweden, June 15, 2024. (X screengrab)
June 15, 2024, 8:59 pm
Sweden releases convicted war criminal in swap with Iran
Hamid Noury, who was involved in 1988 mass executions, exchanged for two Swedish nationals; EU vows to work for freedom of other Europeans who it says are arbitrarily detained
By Jon Gambrell
Courtroom sketch shows Iranian defendant Hamid Noury (2nd from left) sitting in the District Court of Stockholm with his defense attorney Daniel Marcus (3rd from left) on the opening of his trial for war crimes and murder, on August 10, 2021. (Anders Humlebo/AFP)
December 20, 2023, 6:33 pm
Iran summons Swedish envoy over life sentence for ex-official behind mass executions
Tehran protests decision by Swedish appeals court to uphold jail term handed to Hamid Noury last year over ‘grave breaches of international humanitarian law and murder’
By AFP
An image of Swedish national Johan Floderus during a video call from Iranian prison on August 7, 2023, released by his family in September. (Courtesy)
September 10, 2023, 3:25 pm
Family of EU diplomat held captive by Iran pleads for his immediate release
As Johan Floderus marks his 33rd birthday in custody, his relatives in Sweden say ‘he should be with us celebrating’
By AFP
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell on August 31, 2023. (PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP)
September 5, 2023, 1:39 pm
EU foreign policy chief working ‘relentlessly’ to free Swedish diplomat held by Iran
Josep Borrell names prisoner as Johan Floderus, 33, held captive for over 500 days on spying allegations
By AFP
Illustrative: Iranian police in Tehran, Iran, August 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 4, 2023, 5:10 pm
Swedish national has been held by Iran since last year, Stockholm confirms
Man identified as Johan Floderus, a Swede working for the EU’s diplomatic corps whom Tehran seemingly accused of spying for Israel
By Karl Ritter and JAN M. OLSEN
Protesters chant slogans against Sweden in front of the embassy in Tehran, Iran, July 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
July 22, 2023, 5:38 am
Amid fury over Quran desecrations, Iran says it won’t accept new Swedish ambassador
Protesters in Tehran denounce Sweden, Israel and other countries, and crowds rally in Iraq, as Muslim world rages after holy book burned, stepped on in Stockholm
By AFP
Habib Chaab is seen on Iranian state TV in November 2020, confessing to an attack on a military parade two years earlier. (Video screenshot)
May 6, 2023, 8:49 am
Iran executes Swedish-Iranian dual national said behind deadly 2018 parade attack
Tehran says Habib Chaab was head of a terror group acting under the direction of foreign intelligence services, including the Israeli Mossad
By Agencies
Protesters shout slogans and wave flags outside the Appeals Court building in Sollentuna, north of Stockholm, Sweden on January 11, 2023, at the start of the appeal trial of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prison official, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Sweden for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents. (Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
January 11, 2023, 5:36 pm
Appeal opens for ex-Iran official sentenced to life in Sweden for dissidents purge
Case relates to 1988 killing of at least 5,000 prisoners allegedly ordered by Ayatollah Khomeini in order to avenge attacks carried out by exiled opposition group
By AFP
A police tape cordons an area outside a house where Swedish Security Service allegedly arrested two people on suspicions of espionage in a predawn operation in Stockholm, November 22 2022. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
November 25, 2022, 11:43 pm
Trial begins for Iranian-born Swedish brothers charged with spying for Russia
Peyman and Payam Kia allegedly worked together to pass information to Russian military intelligence for over a decade, with Peyman working for secret Swedish spy agency at the time
By AP
Illustrative. A person in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 11, 2022, 7:11 pm
Iran-born brothers indicted by Sweden over spying for Russia
One of the suspects, who were identified as Peyman Kia and Payam Kia, worked for the Swedish domestic intelligence agency
By JAN M. OLSEN
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